ports security updates branch

Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot at lphp.org
Fri Oct 17 04:22:21 PDT 2003


Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>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.

Oh I know that :)
Ok, I can totally understand why it does not exist then.
However, is there a way to know if one of my installed packages has a 
security alert ? I guess not... but we never know...

Thanks for the reply by the way.

Antoine



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