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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 10:33:32 +0100
From:      "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
To:        "Roger Marquis" <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Survey
Message-ID:  <f34ca13c0605240233t1b3555dbn39f34b4d598d5bb7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz>
References:  <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz>

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On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote:
> All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference
> implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm,
> apt-get, or anything else out there.

I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's
pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port
updating, which seems to work quite well:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/

Cheers,
Constantine.



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