packages with security vulnerabilities

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 21 13:27:44 PST 2008


P Bielecki wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 4:24 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Packages are built continuously and as fast as possible.  Which package
>> sets do you feel are being updated too slowly?
>>
>> Kris
>>
> 
> Kris,
> I am just curious how it works.
> Was concern about packages with security updates mostly;
> maybe perl, mod_perl, php5, Apache22 and possibly few from mail/ as
> well, what do you think?
> 
> I think I was trying to find analogy to Debian's security APT updates
> which actually haven't been using for quite a while now.

I still don't understand what you claim is the problem :)  We do not 
specially update packages like perl; rather, *every* package is 
frequently rebuilt and updated.

Kris


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