Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:47:40 +0200 From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports security updates branch Message-ID: <3F8F9E9C.1070909@lphp.org>
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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. Thanks for reading me. Antoine
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