Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Idea for easily checking for security updates.
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:54:14
Message-Id: 20040209175733.53cfa0e5@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Idea for easily checking for security updates. by Ixion
1 On 02/09/04 Ixion wrote:
2
3 > I second that! I've been doing 'emerge -u world's on my web server at
4 > home and the fileservers here at work, and like Mark, do not feel
5 > comfortable with this. I also don't have a lot of time to dig around
6 > and find out why there was an update (unless there's an easy way to do
7 > this??).
8 >
9 > I think 'emerge -u -L1 world' is an awesome idea! :)
10
11 But not really possible to implement as the importance is rather
12 subjective and dependant on the context. Example:
13
14 foo-1.0.1 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.0
15 foo-1.0.2 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.1
16
17 now is foo-1.0.2 also a trivial update to foo-1.0.0 ?
18 You'd have to define the importance against all previous versions or
19 find a very intelligent algorithm that makes everyone happy.
20 Also who should define the importance ? The ebuild maintainer might have
21 a different opinion about what's important than you (not to mention that
22 it just adds one more piece of information that has to be maintained).
23
24 Marius
25
26 --
27 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub
28
29 In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
30 Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.

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Re: [gentoo-security] Idea for easily checking for security updates. Ixion <ixion@××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-security] Idea for easily checking for security updates. Mark Guertin <guertin@××××××××××××××.com>