On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security > vulnerabilities; of course not all available updates are security > fixes. > > So my question is: how or where can I monitor security > vulnerabilities? Or, how can I keep my system up-to-date with respect > to security, without applying every non-security update?
Subscribe to security-notifications@ (for base system security alerts),
and install ports-mgmt/portaudit.
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Daniel Bye
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