Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:13:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System Message-ID: <20060210191322.GD2090@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602101301510.17814@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <43EA9782.7060708@chrismaness.com> <43EA9DA4.4040206@mac.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602101301510.17814@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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In the last episode (Feb 10), Andreas Davour said: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Chris Maness wrote: > >>How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. > >>And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade > >>-a so that everything selected gets rebuilt. > >> > >>What is the equivalent for the base system? > > > >The ports tree isn't branched; just get HEAD (aka ".") and you'll > >get the most current version with the most recent security updates. > >You might want to install security/portaudit, however, which is a > >very useful tool. > > Which makes me finally throw out a question I've been wondering > about. Is there no way of getting a specific tagged ports tree, if > you'd like to get a ports tree the way it looked when, say, > 4.6-RELEASE came out? Use a tag of RELEASE_4_6_0 . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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