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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:23:54 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: getting alerts about system upgrades
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports, 
> and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.  It's a whole 
> lot easier than the old situation of tracking the security lists every 
> day.
> 
> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical upgrades
> for the FreeBSD core?

The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce@ and/or
security-announce@freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but important
stuff you need to know comes through those channels.

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Bill Moran
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