FreeBSD Security Survey

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

> 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/

Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot 
from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further.

Andrew


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