54219 – emerge should support a security update flag

Bug 54219 - emerge should support a security update flag

Summary: emerge should support a security update flag

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2004-06-17 11:37 UTC by Florian Effenberger
Modified:	2004-06-17 12:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Florian Effenberger 2004-06-17 11:37:05 UTC

emerge should support a security update flag. Sometimes you don't want to compile all packages at once, but only the security relevant ones. A command like

emerge --update world-security
and
emerge --update system-security

would be great.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Kevin Lacquement 2004-06-17 11:54:11 UTC

There's another tool for that, glsa-check, included in app-portage/gentoolkit

Comment 2 Florian Effenberger 2004-06-17 12:09:17 UTC

Thanks, didn't know that!