Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:29:41 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Stevan Tiefert <stevan-tiefert@t-online.de> Subject: Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0701171123280.19416@glacier.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <45AC5E4A.3060008@delphij.net> References: <200701160525.22382.stevan-tiefert@t-online.de> <45AC5E4A.3060008@delphij.net>
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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.
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