GLSA-check
Gentoo keeps moving towards profissionalizing what was already an excellent personal distribution. I've just found out about the glsa-check command, and the effort to integrate Gentoo Linux Security Announcement checking right into portage:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml
Beta code is a bit unfriendly, but perfectly functional. Go Gentoo!
You can get a list of GLSAs that may affect your system with this command:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml
Beta code is a bit unfriendly, but perfectly functional. Go Gentoo!
You can get a list of GLSAs that may affect your system with this command:
glsa-check --list 2> /dev/null | egrep "^[0-9]*-[0-9]* .N. " | cut -f 1 --delimiter=" " | xargs -n 1 --replace glsa-check --test {} 2> /dev/null | grep --after-context=1 "This system is affected by the following GLSA" | egrep "^[0-9]*-[0-9]*"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml
