lots of security advisories rehashed

Bob Bishop rb at gid.co.uk
Mon Aug 15 10:29:19 UTC 2016


Hi,

> On 12 Aug 2016, at 13:16, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> […]
> 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@:

Why is this hiding out 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
> 
> 

--
Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk






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