Bug 13352

Summary:	Feature : emerge only security updates
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) <koon>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-01-06 03:30:38 UTC

The goal is to facilitate maintenance of production servers by providing a way
to stay current with all security fixes.

Forum thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=16340 discusses possible
implementations, like (from the most interesting to the least) :

- A specific package.mask (security.mask ?) listing packages with known security
holes, and an "emerge security" feature that would compare installed packages
with this security.mask and upgarde those necessary (Pigeon, psharp idea)

- A specific rsync that would get only security fixes ("emerge world" would
bring the system up to date security-wise (Tristam29 idea)

- A security "flag" that could be set in a package so that an "emerge world
--security" would get only security-related packages (helmers, whit idea)

- ...

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 14:24:09 UTC


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