Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Cc: Bill <wviands@×××××××××××××××.edu>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Security project meeting summary
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:11:13
Message-Id: 200807290413.41369.rbu@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Security project meeting summary by Bill
1 On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Bill wrote:
2 > > Currently (to the best of my understanding) there is no easy way
3 > > (e.g.: an /emerge/ option) to identify and update only the packages
4 > > that have security fixes.
5 >
6 > This doesn't work anymore?
7 >
8 > 1. emerge --sync (emerge-webrsync)
9 > 2. glsa-check -p affected
10 > 3. glsa-check -f affected
11 > 4. env-update
12 > 5. revdep-rebuild
13
14 GLSA support has also been integrated into Portage 2.2, so you can do
15 something along the lines of
16 # emerge --update @security
17
18
19 Robert

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-security] Security project meeting summary Aleksey V Lazar <lazar@××××.edu>