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Bug 7924 - "emerge security" option to portage
Summary: "emerge security" option to portage
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5835
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Highest critical (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Keywords: SECURITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-09-14 15:39 UTC by Mikko Moilanen
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:37 UTC (History)
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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 ***