On 08/12/16 12:23, Kurt Jaeger wrote:> Hi!
>
>> I subscribe to the RSS feed of FreeBSD security advisories
>> (http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/rss.xml). Today, it told me that
there
>> were forty-something advisories. I went to the VuXML site and saw that
a
>> stack of old entries have been updated to have today as their
"Entry"
>> date. What's the reason? Is it something to be worried about?
>
> No, as far as I know.
>
> Mark Feld added some VuXML entries to ancient bugs, for completeness.
>
Note that these are capturing the last several years worth of security
advisories for the base system into VuXML. This allows you to say, for
instance:
pkg audit FreeBSD-10.3_2
which will tell you about a number of security advisories which have
come out since 10.3-RELEASE-p2. This is in anticipation of the base
system being packaged, which is due to come in with 11.1-RELEASE.
See Mark Felder's announcement on questions@:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-August/273034.html
As Mark says, this is not guaranteed to be either accurate or complete,
but it should be helpful in managing system upgrades.
Cheers,
Matthew
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