ports security updates branch

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> This might be a dumb question, but I was wondering if a king of "stable 
> branch" existed for the ports tree. Under OpenBSD I think you can follow 
> the ports tree stable branch so you only get security updates for your 
> ports.
> This does not seem possible under FreeBSD, if I understood correctly 
> only the current branch (tag=.) is used for ports; at least this is what 
> I always used...
> Now, here are my questions about that:
> - is there a way to only get the security updates for ports ? (are 
> security updates for ports included in the FreeBSD security advisories)
> - when upgrading to a new release, can I use the release branch for ports ?
> 
> The reason I'm asking this is that I don't want to update my ports 
> everytime a new version comes out... except if it has a security issue.

FreeBSD doesn't provide this.  Since our ports collection is about 5
times the size of OpenBSD's it's too much work.

Kris
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