Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:25:52 -0500 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@FreeBSD.org> To: P Bielecki <pawciobiel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages with security vulnerabilities Message-ID: <47936800.9050800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2e420cc20801200650q19ed0d03h38a3152b26f22643@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e420cc20801200650q19ed0d03h38a3152b26f22643@mail.gmail.com>
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P Bielecki wrote: > Hi, > > freebsd-update helps me update base system, > portaudit(1) reminds me everyday about security vulnerabilities in > ports/packages and thanks to portupgrade(1), > I keep them up to date. > > Quite often I build packages or use packages whenever available and > share (NFS) them with my other boxes. > > Although building and "deploying" packages can be fairly simple, > due to dependencies, slow network connections, hw problems or just > slow machine it takes a while. > > What would really help me is if latest - updated packages could be > available more often. > > How porters decide which package should be updated and available as package? > Is there anything what can I do to help updating latest packages? > > Thanks, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > You could donate more/better machines to do the package builds. :) It takes a long time to build packages for over 20K ports. Packaging also depends on licensing, some things are not allowed to be distributed as binary packages. -Frank
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