Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:38:15 -0700 From: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> Cc: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quarterly packages and security updates... Message-ID: <CAKE2PDtuhHTc5N0S12FhPqyH0e5fO=dR7uSjnPPYr8ivtgwyFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150814173142.GK4093@blisses.org> References: <20150813202007.GC4093@blisses.org> <1439566064.3432937.356330361.6E353C63@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20150814173142.GK4093@blisses.org>
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On 14 August 2015 at 10:31, Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> wrote: > How about, two of them were vulnerable until I wrote to the list with the > dismaying thought that we were going to ship vulnerable packages, at which > point someone with the ability to push packages around decided to fix > them...? > > That said, I will happily use the mechanisms you noted if I see this sort of > situation in the future, and I am sincerely, deeply grateful that the high- > profile stuff I pointed out was fixed so rapidly in response to my pointing > it out. Reviewing the link Mark provided, it looks like a few hundred packages have a timestamp of 13-Aug: http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/quarterly/All/?C=M&O=D I always do pkg update and then pkg upgrade on my head version of pkg to get any latest and for me to know if the database is updated. -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si
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