FreeBSD Security Survey

Constantine A. Murenin mureninc at gmail.com
Wed May 24 02:33:46 PDT 2006


On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
> All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference
> implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm,
> apt-get, or anything else out there.

I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's
pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port
updating, which seems to work quite well:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/

Cheers,
Constantine.


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