Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Apr 15, 2008, at 20:28 , Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anselm Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation

Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:20:00AM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote: [...] - Can I somehow determine the version of the base system without running uname on the kernel (I could have a release base system but run a stable kernel for example)? Sure, I could take the indirect way over

Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-17 Thread Robert Huff
Jonathan Chen writes: Incidentally, running a userland out-of-sync with the kernel is asking for Bad-Things(tm) to happen. I think of it more like sacrificing a room full of kindergardeners to your oozing tentacled god Asking for Bad Things to Happen(tm).

Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation against a specific checkout of the CVS source and kernel trees considering a specific

Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation against a specific checkout of the CVS source and