Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:47:58 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports security updates branch Message-ID: <20031017084758.GB3259@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3F8F9E9C.1070909@lphp.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable > branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow > the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your > ports. > This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood correctly > only the current branch (tag=.) is used for ports; at least this is what > I always used... > Now, here are my questions about that: > - is there a way to only get the security updates for ports ? (are > security updates for ports included in the FreeBSD security advisories) > - when upgrading to a new release, can I use the release branch for ports ? > > The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports > everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue. FreeBSD doesn't provide this. Since our ports collection is about 5 times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/j6y+Wry0BWjoQKURAvnaAJ4tVqYFDIhFsJc/QMsZSFhUuQyzZwCfWl3/ 7mM3INWB9I4OXz4Hd0ABb1w= =xlmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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