Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:23:59
Message-Id: CAN0CFw0F4g0sjzjxL0htt0sAq1G=VPyujw8aF2OP11KT8QC2sQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management by Florian Philipp
1 >> I've been checking this daily for a while:
2 >>
3 >> http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml
4 >>
5 >> but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have
6 >> installed, my installed version is unaffected.  If I emerge world
7 >> daily, do I need to check on GLSA's?
8 >>
9 >> - Grant
10 >>
11 >
12 > I don't know the exact policy but I've never seen a GLSA being issued
13 > before the fix got stabilized. If you update daily, GLSAs should not
14 > affect you.
15
16 Thanks Florian.
17
18 - Grant