[csw-maintainers] [Fwd: Re: [csw-users] Openssl vulnerability CVE-2009-3555]

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know exactly what is the good answer to the following question asked
> on the csw users mailing list.
>
> Can someone enlighten me ?
>
> Yann
>

(...)

> What is the plan for updating stable?  If there are no plans to
> maintain stable, is there a documented procedure for me to create a
> custom branch (e.g. mystable) that contains the fixes and updates that
> I care about?  The current stable seems to be a bit stale.

I'd say: use bldcat to create own catalog with newer versions or
fixes, then use it on top of the stable catalog using multiple
catalogs in pkgutil.conf.  I'm not sure if pkg-get can do the same.

Maciej