Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:25:59 +0400 From: rihad <rihad@mail.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: ports security branch Message-ID: <43A7A3F7.7060500@mail.ru>
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Is there a security branch for the FreeBSD ports collection? Let's say, I installed FreeBSD 6.0 together with all needed -RELEASE ports/packages (i.e., those on the CD). Running security/portaudit after a while reveals that some of the installed packages have vulnerabilities. Am I on my own to go grab the fresh ports tree, and upgrade the affected software, suffering all the intricacies of the move by myself? Debian GNU/Linux has its security package updates, OpenBSD has a separately maintained "errata" ports branch (it's very likely you still get to download a newer release of the software, though). Sorry if this is a bit OT. I've already asked this on freebsd-questions@ but they told me there's no such thing at all.
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