Peter Jeremy wrote:
One of the major problems with unattended/automatic updating is that it is hard to filter them.
It's hard to make a good case for automatic updates when manual updates are so easy. The main area this could be improved on would be in a daily report, emailed to root, detailing which installed ports are out of date. We do this with a shell script <http://www.roble.com/docs/cvsup-ports-rep>. One issue with identifying out-of-date installed ports is the port-version number. We usually ignore port-version-only updates because it's difficult to tell what was changed and few changes aren't detailed in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Another issue has to do with policy regarding -release, -rc, -alpha versioning. Too many ports maintainers think nothing of using -pre-release versions that are usually not appropriate on -release systems. 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. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
