Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

[Paul Schmehl]

--On February 8, 2006 5:14:42 PM -0800 Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> 
wrote:

> Newbie question:
>
> How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports.

Install security/portaudit.  You'll be notified daily regarding any ports 
that need security updates.

> And
> would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that
> everything selected gets rebuilt.
>
I do portupgrade -ai.  The last thing you want is to be caught by surprise 
when something is updated that you were not expecting.

> What is the equivalent for the base system?

security/freebsd-update

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/