Re: NetBSD vs FreeBSD

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 08/04/2011 01:07 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Can you explain the audit part? I don't know what you mean.
>
> pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities
>
> pkg_admin audit
>
> (oh I have much to upgrade :)
>
> Some NetBSD developers maintain a text file listing packages that have
> vulnerabilities. audit-packages (the old name) is used to compare your
> installed packages with that list. The output gives a very short keyword
> description and a URL for details (for every match).

That's interesting. Thanks.


> > > 2. isolates dependencies so that dangling or hidden dependencies just
> > > do not happen.
> >
> > Can you explain this part? I'm a noob to all BSD.
>
>
> One way is creating wrappers and symlinks for much of the dependencies
> and then forcing the build to use them instead.
>
> (Not BSD specific.)

Ok.

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