flash10, updated linux-{curl, openssl} etc ports... (resent w/o attachments)

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Thu Oct 30 16:18:29 PDT 2008


In article <02325568 at ipt.ru> you write:
>On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:19:46 +0000 Juergen Lock wrote:
>
>[...]
>> linux_base-f7 and then unpacked the f7 curl rpm and dependencies using
>> rpm2cpio piped to tar xfv - ...
>
>I'm not sure if it's any difference but usually we use a pipe to "cpio -id".
>
Yeah that's technically more correct, I was just taking advantage of
the fact that bsdtar understands cpio archive also.

>>  Ok and now something more general for the emulation folks:  Now that
>> fc4 seems to be eol'd, what do we do to get updated linux-{curl,openssl}
>> etc ports from f7 (or f8?) for the folks that _can_ use them?  (like,
>> RELENG_7 and above.)  Its not only that they are useful for flash10,
>> its also because of security updates...  (No I haven't actually checked if
>> there _were_ advisories for one of these since fc4, its just not really
>> unlikely. :)
>
>I have a bunch of new linux-f8 ports which should be introduced after
>the ports tree slush is over.

 Cool!

 Thanx,
	Juergen


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