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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:44:13 -0600
From:      David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
To:        batz <batsy@vapour.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Managing port security upgrades (was:Re: PHP 4.1.2)
Message-ID:  <200203130144.g2D1iDn21277@midway.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203121730170.5001-100000@vapour.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203121730170.5001-100000@vapour.net>

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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 04:55 pm, batz wrote:
> Back to my original post, about whether cvs would be a useful way to
> manage security specific information, so that people who just wanted to
> fix open vulnerabilities could do so in a way that did not involve
> sucking down most of the ports tree if they had not upgraded it in a while.

But if you just cvsup'd the vulnerable ports and you hadn't cvsup'd the rest 
in a while, there's a good chance some of them wouldn't build due to 
dependency issues.

-David

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