From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2364 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Aug 2003 17:11:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31383 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2003 17:11:50 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:11:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308161146.16771.kaschu@t800.ping.de> <200308161631.47162.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200308161759.19056.kaschu@t800.ping.de> In-Reply-To: <200308161759.19056.kaschu@t800.ping.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_RXmP/2hyTx4vIfU"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308161911.45622.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: security updates only? (security-1.0.ebuild) X-Archives-Salt: e25c70f5-9b28-43a3-a670-539a6d20834d X-Archives-Hash: f9399b1b531a3779b230e7848adaa030 --Boundary-02=_RXmP/2hyTx4vIfU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 installed packages, compares them with the list and tries to update those=20 that are with an ebuild in the same slot. If there is no such ebuild it=20 issues a warning. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_RXmP/2hyTx4vIfU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PmXRbKx5DBjWFdsRAhSxAKCr+Z/zmIPKFBV2pp7g/uCSVV20EgCcCpVb UXncZUS5yP86+YQTDp8VELs= =ua+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_RXmP/2hyTx4vIfU--