keeping my freebsd secure...

[Haim Ashkenazi]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:22:34 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:

> 
>> I've tried to upgrade with portupgrade the three packages that according
>> to portaudit have problems (mc, png, mysql-client). the response was that
>> there's no need to upgrade (version stays the same). do I stay with these
>> versions and try to upgrade every day (until a fix will be released) or is
>> there some setting I have to change in order to access a newer version? 
>> [...]
> 
> Your ports directory hasn't been updated. Portupgrade will check what 
> you have installed against the metadata in the port directory and decide 
> whether to upgrade or not.
> 
>> sorry if these are basic questions, I'm sure that I can find all the
>> answers on the web but as I said before, I have to make this server
>> up and running in 2 days and I want at least to keep it safe...
> 
> check the section in the FreeBSD handbook about keepiny your system up 
> to date with cvsup. You should do this both for your ports collection 
> and your source tree (to patch/upgrade it, as it is independent of the 
> port system). Here, you will also have to decide whether to follow 
> -STABLE or -CURRENT.
does the -STABLE branch on the ports offer all the security fixes (the
example file use -CURRENT)? I remember reading somewhere that the
-CURRENT ports are not guaranteed to compile under stable system.

btw, I have an old book "The complete FreeBSD" which I bought about 4
years ago (when I thought of trying freeBSD. I didn't use it then because
I couldn't make it recognize my ISDN). is it still relevant? 

-- 
Haim