Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months agowhat’s the alternative? Write a PR yourself?
Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months agowhat’s the alternative? Write a PR yourself?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup. Really easy in most cases if you’re just upgrading a dependency version of something to the next minor release up, but then it has to pass all the project CI tests, and get an actual maintainer to tag it for release. That’s how open source works though.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That may work for a handful of projects. It’d be my full time job if I did it for everything I run. Also, I might simply suggest maintainers to adopt dependabot or an alternative before I spend time with manual changes. These things should be automated.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well a PR means an upstream fix for the project. If you want to scan all your local running things, by all means change whatever you want, but it will just be potentially wiped out by the tool you mentioned if running.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dependabot is a tool for repos, not to apply local changes