From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 16:42:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCF816A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB6543D31 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:42:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1015485D; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:42:50 -0600 (CST) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C4BF6D465; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:42:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:42:50 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Michael Vince Message-ID: <20040306004250.GC80556@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Michael Vince , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <4046B025.5010603@roq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4046B025.5010603@roq.com> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD source auto patcher script X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 00:42:51 -0000 On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:27:17PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote: > Hi all > I thought I would let you people know of a script that I coded that > facilitates security patch updating on FreeBSD. When I wrote it I > decided to called it Quickpatch for some reason even though because its > source based its not necessarily the least bit quick at all :) I had > kept it for my self for a while but I was recently provoked to release > it as it could do greater good being out there on the net, because its > in Perl its quite hackable for custom needs. > > http://www.roq.com/projects/quickpatch/ > > It has the ability to do a range of different update tasks. These > features include the ability to easily verify (using PGP) any and all > advisories, easy setup and use of CVSUP for source and ports tree > updates. Ability to extract all the useful data out of the official > FreeBSD security advisories, such as necessary patch commands, security > advisory topic, exact hours since the patch was made/released, then can > create ready to run patch files or display/email a full report of that > information. Also, it can optionally apply the patch files with no > attendance. Because its highly cronable you can schedule in a 'patch > mode' kernel recompile and reboot at early morning hours to minimize > down time inconvenience to others. Michael, that's terrific! We've contemplated switching to a machine-readable format for advisories time and again. Now that there is a tool that could make use of that, I'm going to investigate switching again. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org