ports security branch

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 13:26, rihad wrote:

> Imagine: Foo 1.2.3 that 
> was current at the time of FreeBSD 6.0 release gets a severe vuln after
> some time. Some admins upgrade to the latest and greatest Foo 1.2.9,
> others to Foo 1.2.7 (probably with not recently updated ports tree)...

If 1.2.7 is secure, there is no problem. If 1.2.7 is not, portaudit will not 
let you upgrade. It seems to me, you need to farmiliarize yourself first with 
the mechanisms in place already, before shooting it.
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Melvyn Sopacua
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