Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

[Jeremy C. Reed]

Just to let you know, the http://www.pkgsrc.org/ collection mostly works 
fine on FreeBSD.

It provides a quarterly stable branch that only has updates for security 
fixes and other essential updates. This has been maintained for a few 
years now. The quarterly stable branch is not scheduled on any operating 
system release.

The pkgsrc security team monitors thousands of security issues (most for 
software not in the collection) to help make sure existing vulnerabilities 
are listed in the package vulnerabilities database and updates for the 
packages are pulled up to the stable branch.

Over 6000 software suites in pkgsrc.

It is very similar to FreeBSD ports, but a lot of differences too.

I am just mentioning it because it works fine on FreeBSD and it provides a 
security (stable) branch.