Re: Security project meeting summary

Aleksey V Lazar <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.security
Organization Minnesota State University, Mankato
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Robert Buchholz wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Bill wrote:
>   
>>> Currently (to the best of my understanding) there is no easy way
>>> (e.g.: an /emerge/ option) to identify and update only the packages
>>> that have security fixes.
>>>       
>>  This doesn't work anymore?
>>
>>    1. emerge --sync (emerge-webrsync)
>>    2. glsa-check -p affected
>>    3. glsa-check -f affected
>>    4. env-update
>>    5. revdep-rebuild
>>     
>
> GLSA support has also been integrated into Portage 2.2, so you can do 
> something along the lines of
>    # emerge --update @security
>   
This no longer seems to work for me.  Is there a new way to accomplish 
the task?
>
> Robert
>   

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