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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