Christopher Schwerdt wrote:
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From: Jeremy Brake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates
Hey,
Is there anything in Portage which will allow me to view security
updates, seperate from general version updates?
Install gentoolkit if you haven't already and run "glsa-check -t all".
It will show you all GLSA's that affect your currently installed
packages. You can then "glsa-check -d YYYYMM-DD" to view the resolution
(i.e. what packages to emerge) of the security update.
Curious. When I run "glsa-check -t all" and it comes back with 17 hits. However, I have a
script that runs "emerge sync" and "emerge -p world" every night and another one that runs
"emerge -puD world" every Saturday. I am currently completely up to date on these except
libxml wants to be updated on "-uD".
So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps these are all
packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor depdencies of stuff in my
world file? Would that then make them orphaned? And theoretically safe to delete? How does
one find out if a specific package is required by any other packages again?
b
PS: to the O.P... you can also subscribe to "[email protected]". I am and
have a mail filter route it into a glsa folder (it's 99.999% glsa anyway).
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