locked packages got upgraded anyway

Rainer Duffner rainer at ultra-secure.de
Tue Oct 13 22:42:59 UTC 2015


> Am 14.10.2015 um 00:31 schrieb Benjamin Connelly <ben at electricembers.coop>:
> 
> We have a few ports we compile with different compile time options than the FreeBSD binary repo, so we keep them locked. Last night when doing some patching, we saw those locked packages get updated anyhow. For example, pkg said all of these things on one system:
> 


IMO, you either compile all of the packages you use yourself - or none.

Until FreeBSD gets a sort of „stable“ ports-tree that lives for longer than three months, running your own repo is almost a must for anything even semi mission-critical.





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