Re: Package automation in /etc/daily

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Bernd Ernesti 
<netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:00:48PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> pkg_admin in the base system has bundled support for vulnerability
>> checks for a while.  I think it'd be valuable to automate these in
>> /etc/daily instead of relying on the administrator to do this.
>>
>> The attached patch adds some new checks in the daily scripts to
>> refresh the vulnerabilities database and to check that the installed
>> packages are valid.  From the manpage:
>
> It should not be enabled by default.
>
> * not every system has a working connection to fetch it
> * not every system has packages installed

If you read my original email, this only runs if there are packages installed.

-- 
Julio Merino