Re: [gentoo-security] No GLSA since January?!?

[Christian Kauhaus]

Am 26.08.2011 20:08, schrieb Kevin Bryan:
> SECURITY_FIXES="<www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.102.64"
> SECURITY_REF="CVE:2010-2169 http://..."
> SECURITY_BUG="343089"
> SECURITY_IMPACT="remote"

Your idea sounds interesting and could lead to very cool technology like the 
'ACCEPT_RISKS="..."' variable mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

But it does not solve a major part of the use case. In my opinion, we need to 
get notifications about security risks over an independent channel without 
having to update the portage tree.

For me (and the rest of my company) the greatest advantage of Gentoo over 
other distributions it it's "continuous integration" approach. Updates get 
committed to the portage tree continuously over time and administrators are 
completely free on how often and when they update their systems. This is 
great. But given I have an installed base and I have no reason to update the 
portage tree now, I need a reliable information about "this package is 
borked". Then I should go for update as fast as possible of course. :-)

So in consequence I would appreciate to have both mechanisms: a timely 
up-front notification via GLSAs (probably more brief than the past ones) and 
some sort of security masking.

Regards

Christian

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