On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 21:31, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 10/07/2010 10:11 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>> OTOH, this patch seems pretty small and simple to maintain.
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>> True, it is rather small.
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>> Does anybody know if there's an automated way to maintain that on
>> freebsd ports, and if so, how that works? I want to be *sure* we can't
>> accidentally upgrade git-cvsserver *without* the patch, since that is
>> a security issue.
>>
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> Why not just make a local copy somewhere else and patch and run that? It's
> just a Perl script, no?
Yeah, but then we have to remember to manually patch that one when
somebody *else* finds/fixes a security issue. We have automatic
monitoring on the ports stuff to detect when that happens..
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