Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:16:46 -0800 From: Adam Wight <adamw@brsys.com> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Managing port security upgrades (was:Re: PHP 4.1.2) Message-ID: <20020313101646.A4570@brsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20020313194713.A3633-100000@a2>; from Andrew McNaughton on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:53:32PM %2B1300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203121730170.5001-100000@vapour.net> <20020313194713.A3633-100000@a2>
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What about a new make target, "upgrade," that only sync'ed the ports subtree for the port being built and its dependencies? I don't think that ports needs a cvs branch for security fixes, but a way to bring only a selected package up-to-date would be useful for its speed and reduced cvsupd load after security advisories, as well as for the decreased bandwidth on the users' boxes. If this sounds good to people, I would be happy to implement it. -adam wight On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:53:32PM +1300, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, 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. > > > > Has anyone else done anything especially different for managing security > > specific patches? > > Rather than looking at separate distribution of ports, why not look at a > protocol for providing a list of versions of ports which are insecure. > This could be added into the daily security check. No remedy to problems > found, just notification. Something similar to the version checking > available through periodic at present except that it would only cover > security issues. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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