Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Colin Percival]

At 13:54 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>What does one do about packages and ports? It appears that the binary 
>packages on the FreeBSD servers are never updated between releases... 
>which means that if a bug is in a package or is compiled into a package 
>(as with the realpath problem), the FreeBSD servers keep sending out 
>exploitable copies of that package indefinitely. The situation with ports 
>is a bit better, but how does one know which ones to recompile and 
>reinstall? Does your update system handle this situation and/or warn about it?

   FreeBSD Update only concerns itself with the base FreeBSD distribution 
-- I simply don't have the resources to build any more than that.  However, 
one simple approach to the ports problem would be to
   # find /usr/local/ -perm +111 -type f -exec file {} \; | grep 
"statically linked" | cut -f 1 -d ':'
and rebuild the applicable ports.  Now that I think about it, I might add 
some sort of functionality like that (providing a listing of ports which 
need to be rebuilt) into a future version of FreeBSD Update.

Colin Percival