To track or not to track

[Chris Maness]

>
>
>> I just wanted to get pros and cons for tracking the whole port tree 
>> on a production server.
>>
>> Any opinions?
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Derek Ragona wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I will use a CVS tag to update a release for any officially reported 
> security issues.  You can look up the right tags here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
>
> However, with production boxes, I have either non-production boxes I 
> update first to test the release, or secondary production boxes I 
> update first.
>
> I only update these systems if the security issue will effect the 
> use.  For instance, if it is an issue with ipfw, but I am not using 
> that on a box, I don't bother to update it.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>         -Derek

Are you using these tags for the ports or the base system + userland?  I 
love the way that I can track the security/bug fixes by tracking a 
branch of the code for the src directory.  It would be nice if ports 
forked too.