On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:35:46 -0400, Nick Smith wrote:

> has anyone written a script that checks for glsa security updates and
> then has it auto emerge the packages it needs to get rid of the
> security risk?  if so i would be very interested in looking at that
> script.  Keeping 5 gentoo machines up to date security wise is
> becoming very time consuming.

I'm not sure that automatically emerging packages like that is a good
idea, especially if config changes are involved. I have a daily cron job
that mails the output of glsa-check to me, so I can decide for myself.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Men who have playful kittens shouldn't sleep in the nude.

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