GLSA-CHECK
Section: gentoolkit (1)
Updated: 0.4.2-r1
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NAME
glsa-check - Gentoo: Tool to locally monitor and manage GLSAs
SYNTAX
glsa-check <option> [glsa-list]
[glsa-list] can contain an arbitrary number of GLSA ids, filenames containing GLSAs or the special identifiers 'all' and 'affected'
DESCRIPTION
This tool is used to locally monitor and manage Gentoo Linux Security Advisories.
Please read:
http://www.gentoo.org/security
before reporting a bug.
Note: In order for this tool to be effective, you must regularly sync your local portage tree.
OPTIONS
- -l, --list
-
list the a summary for all GLSAs in glsa-list and whether they affect the system
- -d, --dump, --print
-
show all information about the GLSAs in glsa-list
- -t, --test
-
test if this system is affected by the GLSAs in glsa-list and output the GLSA IDs
- -p, --pretend
-
show the necessary steps to apply the GLSAs in glsa-list
- -f, --fix
-
try to auto-apply the GLSAs in in glsa-list using emerge. This will only upgrade packages to later version, but not remove packages when no upgrade path exists (experimental)
- -i, --inject
-
inject the given GLSA into the glsa_injected file
- -n, --nocolor
-
disable colors (option)
- -h, --help
-
show this help message
- -V, --version
-
some information about this tool
- -v, --verbose
-
print more messages (option)
- -c, --cve
-
show CVE ids in listing mode (option)
- -q, --quiet
-
be less verbose and do not send empty mail (option)
- -m, --mail
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send a mail with the given GLSAs to the administrator
FILES
- /var/lib/portage/glsa_injected
-
List of GLSA ids that have been injected and will never show up as 'affected' on this system.
The file must contain one GLSA id (e.g. '200804-02') per line.