Bug 127643

Summary:	Security only world updates for portage [Feature Request]
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	immolo <immolo>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description immolo 2006-03-26 08:47:36 UTC

I would like to request a feature in portage that only updated packages that only updated packages that had known flaws in the code as such a feautre would be great for people like myself that run servers only keep there packages upto date when a  flaw is found rather then bringing the most of the system down while doing a emerge -e world every other day and making sure config files are ok during the update.

An idea that came to mind was maybe a way of  having portage check the world file againt a glsa database to see if a version number has a known flaw then ask to update if needed.

Any comments on my idea would be great

Immollo

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-26 13:08:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5835 ***