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

From: GB Clark II (gclarkii@vsservices.com)
Date: 11/29/01 

From: GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com>
To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:55:25 -0600

On Thursday 29 November 2001 15:58, you wrote:
> 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.
Hello,

This sounds like a good way for me to get re-involved with the project.

Can anyone point me towards email or something that describes the packages we
need?

Thanks,

GB
Developer alumni 

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