[clug] Distro advice for server

[jan]

Chris Smart wrote:

>How do you maintain your Gentoo servers? I have a few scripts I use, like
>one that emails me security vulnerabilities and then I go and fix them
>manually.
>
>I guess I'm not totally confident that if I update a package under Gentoo
>that it's not going to break something due to lack of testing. Mind you I
>haven't had this happen that I can think of, but on a server that I have to
>rely on it's niggling at the back of my mind.
>  
>
There are 2 proposals to fix these issues:

1.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0014.html
also see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml
and
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=14

2.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html