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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] exploits and portage snapshots
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:03:38
Message-Id: 200309200902.29688.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com
1 That's what another user recommended but looking at the script shows that it
2 just finds the latest snapshot (portage-20030914.tar.bz2 in this case),
3 extracts it locally at then rsyncs against the local copy. That latest copy
4 is now 6 days old.
5
6 On Saturday 20 September 2003 06:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
7 > emerge webrsync should fix him right up.
8 >
9 > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:15, Jason Stubbs wrote:
10 > > Hello all,
11 > >
12 > > There's a person on gentoo-user questioning where he can get a portage
13 > > snapshot later than portage-20030914.tar.bz2 as he wants to update
14 > > openssh but can't emerge sync due to his firewall.
15 > >
16 > > How are the snapshots generated? Automatically once a week? Maybe a
17 > > snapshot should be manually generated whenever a security fix is added to
18 > > portage to cater for this situation?
19 > >
20 > > Regards,
21 > > Jason
22 > >
23 > > --
24 > > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
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