From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 2:22:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487F637B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 02:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B9743E3B for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 02:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g719MSJu096954; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:22:28 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g719MSxS096953; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:22:28 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:22:28 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Rob B Cc: Michael Dexter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD from RedHat questions, I'm non on list Message-ID: <20020801092228.GA90403@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020801185228.01d62450@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020801185228.01d62450@pop.ozemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:59:48PM +1000, Rob B wrote: [...] > >4. Freshness: As I watch to see which distribution produces a PHP 4.2.2 > >package or port first, I am curious if you have any guidelines as to how > >timely port updates (often security fixes) can be expected. Related: can > >a new install be built of fresh packages or ports? Need I install the base > >and then download sources and re-compile? > > Ports are different from the base system in that only the comitters can > update base. PHP (in your example) is not part of base, so any security > updates are mostly made by the upstream maintainer, rather than the FreeBSD > packager. The general case, however, is that the port-maintainers are pretty clued up on the ports that they maintain. The port for PHP, as an example, is at 4.2.2. The caveat here is that you really need to CVSup your ports tree pretty regularly and run the portupgrade utility. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When all else fails, RTFM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message