From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 12:57:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E62106566B for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 12:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480988FC1C for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 12:57:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20090505125703.TXGE7670.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 13:57:03 +0100 Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org ([82.21.101.171]) by aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20090505125703.OPKY13254.aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@catflap.slightlystrange.org> for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 13:57:03 +0100 Received: by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix, from userid 106) id DA10266EA; Tue, 5 May 2009 13:57:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from torus.slightlystrange.org (torus.slightlystrange.org [10.1.3.50]) by catflap.slightlystrange.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31B0366E3 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 13:57:00 +0100 (BST) Received: by torus.slightlystrange.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 5 May 2009 13:56:59 +0100 From: "Daniel Bye" Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:56:59 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090505125659.GA46153@torus.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE i386 X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=ZKKhyDFVtUkA:10 a=ehNlctqhnw0A:10 a=LsGWfA76cltGn_hRlkAA:9 a=mWLsoEr4wpa2abFmlwEfLXVBqLMA:4 a=b9wOdgMF-fjs_NDyd90A:9 a=hL5RZFCpd89bZ88QSLDP0OHCqioA:4 Subject: Re: Using portsuprade only for security X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:57:06 -0000 --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security > vulnerabilities; of course not all available updates are security > fixes. >=20 > So my question is: how or where can I monitor security > vulnerabilities? Or, how can I keep my system up-to-date with respect > to security, without applying every non-security update? Subscribe to security-notifications@ (for base system security alerts), and install ports-mgmt/portaudit. --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoAN5sACgkQixf5fBYiFmpdXgCfeAYdKE7lg2E7raeHFBnH6LV7 7vkAn1FXDffM5wK9AgGEJMqA6/sqEN1L =geUf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--