Great.
So would something like audit-packages be easily available for
the entire system?  Just an easier way to stay up to date.

-----Original Message-----
From: Julio Merino [mailto:jmmv@menta.net]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 11:43 AM
To: Sporleder, Matthew (CCI-Atlanta)
Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: build.sh feature request


On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:20:26 -0500
"Sporleder, Matthew (CCI-Atlanta)" <Matthew.Sporleder@cox.com> wrote:

> The only problem with that is that you have to reinstall the entire =
system package.
> I know it really isn't huge, but it's definitely larger than just =
being able to update
> a few programs.  On a very distributed system, small updates could =
really be a lifesaver.
>=20
> And do you really feel safe reinstalling base.tgz on your production =
boxes
> whenver a security advisory comes out?  ;)

Who said base.tgz?  syspkg splits up those big tgz's in pkg's that can =
be
handled with pkg_{add,delete,*} tools. And those packages are *small*.
Say for example, one for bind, one for sendmail, one for postfix, one =
for
libc, etc. The same goes for all other "traditional" sets: comp.tgz, =
man.tgz,
etc.


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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/