The NetBSD Update System

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The NetBSD Update System Provide the functionality of Windows Update Digital signatures to verify the provenance of packages Transfer binary packages by insecure media Check if an update has already been installed Preserve previous files for "rollback"
Pre-requisites for NetBSD Update NetBSD packaging tools installed pkgsrc/security/gnupg package pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_tarup package
Page 1 and 2: The NetBSD Update System Maintainin
Page 3 and 4: Other approaches Windows Update RPM
Page 5 and 6: Help is at hand...
Page 7 and 8: Package naming conventions A consis
Page 9 and 10: The pkg-vulnerabilities file
Page 11 and 12: Digital Signing
Page 13: Installing a digitally-signed packa
Page 17 and 18: Windows Update Site DoS measures ea
Page 19 and 20: Stages in NetBSD Update Notificatio
Page 21 and 22: Vulnerability A package can either
Page 23 and 24: The update-list file
Page 25 and 26: Checkpoints System checkpoint facil
Page 27 and 28: Aspects of updating Changes to conf
Page 29 and 30: Template pkgsrc Makefile
Page 31 and 32: Who can use it? Anyone using the Ne
Page 33 and 34: Extensibility Sun’s patch system
Page 35 and 36: Who should use it? Anyone who is se
Page 37 and 38: NetBSD Update in Action (2)
Page 43 and 44: Future Work replace gpg with BSD-li
Page 45 and 46: The End
Page 47: Contact details Alistair G. Crooks

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