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kcy29581

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From: CA

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 231

Arch and security updates

Hi all,

I was thinking about security updates and wondered how Arch deals with them.

For example:

Gentoo has a huge repo and security patches are applied when needed.
Ubuntu has a huge repo only if you enable the universe and multiverse repos, but they don't get security updates from the Ubuntu devs

How does Arch handle security updates? What about the packages in community? I'm guessing that they are based on when the maintainers update them?

Thanks

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sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: Arch and security updates

well when i used it or maintained packages for it most security "patches" came in the form of upgrading to the newest version. For the rare times that a new version of a insecure appp was not released patches would be applied and the arch version woud go up.

God only knows what they do now though.

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Arch and security updates

Basically, the reason other distros handle security updates differently is because they support old versions of packages.... arch does not.

Like sarah said, a "security update" is usually the exact same as a version upgrade

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kcy29581

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From: CA

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 231

Re: Arch and security updates

great, that sounds ok

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