Bug 7924

Summary:	"emerge security" option to portage
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mikko Moilanen <baldor>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical	Keywords:	SECURITY
Priority:	Highest
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mikko Moilanen 2002-09-14 15:39:22 UTC

Description: Emerge does not contain an option to update any security related
e-builds.

Overview description: Emerge should have an option to only update packages which
are important to system security.

Example: People maintain systems where there is need to only update software
which has some security hole found. Like "emerge system" updates only some
software, there should be option "emerge security", which would check from
"minimun version" file that installed software is up-to-date. For example
installed apache is v.xx and in it is security hole. Emerge checks that in
"minimum version" there is apache v.xx-r2 and updates apache and/or other
software which got security holes.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-14 21:28:14 UTC


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