From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Aug 15 10:29:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917A4BB949B for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:29:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F81C165D; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.30] ([194.32.164.30]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id u7FARkdE019661; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:27:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Subject: Re: lots of security advisories rehashed From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <53ac6f2d-445e-7262-4b31-62393d7a6bf4@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:27:47 +0100 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <86d23401-db6c-29bd-d537-7146686b08f2@menhennitt.com.au> <20160812112330.GE96200@home.opsec.eu> <53ac6f2d-445e-7262-4b31-62393d7a6bf4@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Seaman , feld@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:29:19 -0000 Hi, > On 12 Aug 2016, at 13:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: >=20 > [=E2=80=A6] > Note that these are capturing the last several years worth of security > advisories for the base system into VuXML. This allows you to say, = for > instance: >=20 > pkg audit FreeBSD-10.3_2 >=20 > which will tell you about a number of security advisories which have > come out since 10.3-RELEASE-p2. This is in anticipation of the base > system being packaged, which is due to come in with 11.1-RELEASE. >=20 > See Mark Felder's announcement on questions@: Why is this hiding out on questions@ ? > = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-August/273034.h= tml >=20 > As Mark says, this is not guaranteed to be either accurate or = complete, > but it should be helpful in managing system upgrades. >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Matthew >=20 >=20 -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk