pkg repositories out of alignment
Jungle Boogie
jungleboogie0 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 21:18:12 UTC 2014
Dear Mark,
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From: Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:55:03 -0500
To: freebsd-security at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg repositories out of alignment (was: Re: bash velnerability)
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014, at 10:25, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> I appreciate the speed that folks update the packages; I'm a bit
>> distressed that 9.3 seems to be a second-class citizen for security
>> fixes. (And I totally admit that I could be misreading the situation.)
>>
>
> (speaking strictly as a consumer of the pkg repository)
>
> I am not aware of any other packages with security vulnerabilities that
> have been updated on the repository outside of the planned once-a-week
> schedule. This means if the package set is built and published and
> immediately thereafter a vulnerability comes out for www/chromium, don't
> expect to see the update until next week.
But how do other operating systems build or patch new applications so quickly
and make it available in a pkg manner?
>
> FYI, the repositories are built sequentially and I don't think there's a
> preference of a certain release over another. They're working hard to
> get these updated packages out the door as fast as possible.
Is is alphabetical order? If so B should be coming up soon! ;)
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