Patching

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There are very few Operating Systems that have an adequate patching process for applications. The only two I recommend to someone who is too busy to track all of their installed applications is FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux. Apparently you can do this with RedHat and its offspring, but I've heard too many issues with "dependancy hell" to ever recommend this distribution. With Debian it's as simple as "apt-get install update && apt-get install upgrade" and all of your installed applications will now be up to date! With FreeBSD it's a little more complex. I've created two shell scripts which I've named update, and upgrade. You will need portsnap, portaudit and portupgrade installed to use these:

#!/bin/sh

# update

/usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch && /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update && pkg_version -v -l "<"

#EOF




#!/bin/sh

# upgrade

portaudit -F && portaudit

portupgrade -a

#EOF


Rumour has it that OpenBSD is building a portupgrade tool, and I will surely switch to them at that point, based on their security history.