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New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.

by l2dy 10y ago

parfe 10y ago
http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8 http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8 Thanks for highlighting this. For me, OpenBSD releases needed so few fixes that keeping the system up to date wrapped around, and become more of a hassle to deal with! I'd get an email and have to manually rebuild something. Watching yet another flood of compiler output started feeling like a huge waste of time, despite only happening once every month or two. For personal use, on debian I set a cron job and forget it. This utility hits the sweet spot to get me running OpenBSD again.
- adamrt 10y ago
  You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).
  - currysausage 10y ago
    I keep running into a weird issue where my Debian servers won't shut down ("A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades") when I enable unattended upgrades as described at [1]. It is especially weird since my Debian systems are otherwise pretty bare-bones, yet the issue occurs on several of them. The solutions listed on Stack Exchange [2] seem rather hacky. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_via_.2Fetc.2Fapt.2Fapt.conf.d.2F20auto-upgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_vi... [2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-start-job-is-running-for-unattended-upgrades http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-star...
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      That's particularly nasty (and an aspect of systemd that I really don't like). I'm not sure this has been reported before / correctly: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597 Maybe give the maintainers a prod with a link to that thread?
yellowapple 10y ago
This alone is huge. It addresses a huge pain point (probably the biggest one) in managing security updates between releases.

New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.

by l2dy 10y ago

New syspatch(8) utility for security and reliability binary updates to the base system.

parfe 10y ago

http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8 http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch.8 Thanks for highlighting this. For me, OpenBSD releases needed so few fixes that keeping the system up to date wrapped around, and become more of a hassle to deal with! I'd get an email and have to manually rebuild something. Watching yet another flood of compiler output started feeling like a huge waste of time, despite only happening once every month or two. For personal use, on debian I set a cron job and forget it. This utility hits the sweet spot to get me running OpenBSD again.

adamrt 10y ago
You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).
- currysausage 10y ago
  I keep running into a weird issue where my Debian servers won't shut down ("A start job is running for Unattended Upgrades") when I enable unattended upgrades as described at [1]. It is especially weird since my Debian systems are otherwise pretty bare-bones, yet the issue occurs on several of them. The solutions listed on Stack Exchange [2] seem rather hacky. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_via_.2Fetc.2Fapt.2Fapt.conf.d.2F20auto-upgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades#automatic_call_vi... [2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-start-job-is-running-for-unattended-upgrades http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293804/debian-a-star...
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    That's particularly nasty (and an aspect of systemd that I really don't like). I'm not sure this has been reported before / correctly: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837155 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719597 Maybe give the maintainers a prod with a link to that thread?

yellowapple 10y ago

This alone is huge. It addresses a huge pain point (probably the biggest one) in managing security updates between releases.