Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: security updates only? (security-1.0.ebuild)

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 16 August 2003 17:59, Karsten Schulz wrote:
> *After* rsyncing, but *before* building the cache, emerge should create a
> statical version of app-admin/security/security-VERSION.ebuild with the
> dependencies corresponding to the current system and the correct version.
> After creating this ebuild, the cache could be build and an emerge -p
> security will show the needed updates. That seems to me a few lines of
> python code and an introduction of the new GLSA file.
>
> How is that?

Why not just having a utility (or integrate it into emerge) that scans all 
installed packages, compares them with the list and tries to update those 
that are with an ebuild in the same slot. If there is no such ebuild it 
issues a warning.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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