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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:24:32 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        P Bielecki <pawciobiel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packages with security vulnerabilities
Message-ID:  <479375C0.30507@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <2e420cc20801200650q19ed0d03h38a3152b26f22643@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2e420cc20801200650q19ed0d03h38a3152b26f22643@mail.gmail.com>

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P Bielecki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> freebsd-update helps me update base system,
> portaudit(1) reminds me everyday about security vulnerabilities in
> ports/packages and thanks to portupgrade(1),
> I keep them up to date.
> 
> Quite often I build packages or use packages whenever available and
> share (NFS) them with my other boxes.
> 
> Although building and "deploying" packages can be fairly simple,
>  due to dependencies, slow network connections, hw problems or just
> slow machine it takes a while.
> 
> What would really help me is if  latest - updated packages could be
> available more often.
> 
> How porters decide which package should be updated and available as package?
> Is there anything what can I do to help updating latest packages?

Packages are built continuously and as fast as possible.  Which package 
sets do you feel are being updated too slowly?

Kris



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