From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 14:43:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF9AD01 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3745DCCF for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rufus.webfusion.com (mail.heartinternet.co.uk [79.170.40.31]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r0EEhBww045044 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:11 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.7.4 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk r0EEhBww045044 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1358174591; bh=SUzVUidLhS6BxoiyCCPUlstTEm8KYp0MKNkT6c04kWw=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; z=Date:=20Mon,=2014=20Jan=202013=2014:43:10=20+0000|From:=20Matthew =20Seaman=20|To:=20n=20j=20|CC:=20User=20Questions=20|Subject:=20Re:=20pkgng=20package=20repository=20tracking=20sec urity=20updates|References:=20=20<50F403C6.1030705@gmail.com >=20<50F4130A.5050105@freebsd.org>=20|In-Reply-To:=20; b=wexEoOoZ4CQPjYFQsQshwAqJlz9Oi+pDGePAKaYBQT9oOJIqCtUbELL4WwJwtDqa5 UgKRyWuAgU2yziwG6QR8OfR+chHKC5WxcZmvTGeV6zcwMSb6nXCOig4gOSB0DtiSAt tieIGBUHw5e0vmkDWmOGxZkqCZnVpPx0tJbWyKfE= X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host mail.heartinternet.co.uk [79.170.40.31] claimed to be rufus.webfusion.com Message-ID: <50F4197E.8050003@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:10 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130111 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: n j Subject: Re: pkgng package repository tracking security updates References: <50F403C6.1030705@gmail.com> <50F4130A.5050105@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: User Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:43:15 -0000 On 14/01/2013 14:36, n j wrote: > The point of my question was exactly if it was possible to elaborate on the > "pre-compiled packages from FreeBSD official repositories" part. Would it > be possible to have a (security-wise) up-to-date pre-compiled packages in > the official repositories? Note, I don't expect an unreasonable effort here > - I understand there will always be delays between upstream fix --> ports > fix --> up-to-date package and it is acceptable for the binary package to > lag a few days behind the port (depending on the availability of package > building cluster or maintainer upload). Yes, there will be a pkgng package building cluster which will track updates to the ports and provide as up-to-date a collection of packages as possible for at least x86, amd64 on all supporter FreeBSD branches and head. Possibly other architectures as well. However, as all that is still under construction (and construction plans have been heavily revised in the light of the earlier security compromise) I have no good idea of what sort of turn-around will be possible. I expect at least as good as the old pkg build cluster managed and probably better. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk