lots of security advisories rehashed

[Matthew Seaman]

On 08/12/16 12:23, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> I subscribe to the RSS feed of FreeBSD security advisories 
>> (http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/rss.xml). Today, it told me that there 
>> were forty-something advisories. I went to the VuXML site and saw that a 
>> stack of old entries have been updated to have today as their "Entry" 
>> date. What's the reason? Is it something to be worried about?
> 
> No, as far as I know.
> 
> Mark Feld added some VuXML entries to ancient bugs, for completeness.
> 

Note that these are capturing the last several years worth of security
advisories for the base system into VuXML.  This allows you to say, for
instance:

   pkg audit FreeBSD-10.3_2

which will tell you about a number of security advisories which have
come out since 10.3-RELEASE-p2.  This is in anticipation of the base
system being packaged, which is due to come in with 11.1-RELEASE.

See Mark Felder's announcement on questions@:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-August/273034.html

As Mark says, this is not guaranteed to be either accurate or complete,
but it should be helpful in managing system upgrades.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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