Re: OT: package management (was: Re: Updating ssh)

From: Peter Radcliffe (pir@pir.net)
Date: 11/29/01 

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:58:52 -0500
From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG

Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> probably said:
> At 12:27 PM 11/29/2001, The Anarcat wrote:
> >And there is a solution: we have a package management suite, we should
> >use it to package the base system.
> I really do like this idea.

So do a lot of people, but in every one of the (many) times this has
come up before no one has stepped forward to put the work into
cataloging all the files in the base systems and creating the package
information.

This has been hashed through a dozen times with no resolution and is
no longer appropriate for -security, hmm ?

P. 

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