Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 08/28/03

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    Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:22:01 -0700
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, stable@freebsd.org

    At 13:54 28/08/2003 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
    >What does one do about packages and ports? It appears that the binary
    >packages on the FreeBSD servers are never updated between releases...
    >which means that if a bug is in a package or is compiled into a package
    >(as with the realpath problem), the FreeBSD servers keep sending out
    >exploitable copies of that package indefinitely. The situation with ports
    >is a bit better, but how does one know which ones to recompile and
    >reinstall? Does your update system handle this situation and/or warn about it?

       FreeBSD Update only concerns itself with the base FreeBSD distribution
    -- I simply don't have the resources to build any more than that. However,
    one simple approach to the ports problem would be to
       # find /usr/local/ -perm +111 -type f -exec file {} \; | grep
    "statically linked" | cut -f 1 -d ':'
    and rebuild the applicable ports. Now that I think about it, I might add
    some sort of functionality like that (providing a listing of ports which
    need to be rebuilt) into a future version of FreeBSD Update.

    Colin Percival

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