Add information concerning tracking security issues and new package versions (Steve Crosby). Merged from r6461 and r6462.

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</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>July 9th, 2005 [matt]: Added information regarding security
mailing lists and freshmeat to chapter09/whatnow.xml. Fixes bug 1583. Thanks
to Steve Crosby for the report and the suggested text.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>July 7th, 2005 [manuel]: Revised packages and patches
sizes. Using the lfs-packages-6.1.tar package and `du -k` to
meassure it. Fixed beginpage tags for PDF output. Removed blank pages

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list of resources for you.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Maintenance</para>
<para>Bugs and security notices are reported regularly for all software.
Since an LFS system is compiled from source, it is up to you to keep abreast of
such reports. There are several online resources that track such reports, some
of which are shown below:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Freshmeat.net (<ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>)</para>
<para>Freshmeat can notify you (via email) of new versions of packages installed on your system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.cert.org/">CERT</ulink> (Computer
Emergency Response Team)</para>
<para>CERT has a mailing list that publishes security alerts concerning various
operating systems and applications. Subscription information is available at
<ulink url="http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Bugtraq</para>
<para>Bugtraq is a full-disclosure computer security mailing list. It publishes
newly discovered security issues, and occasionally potential fixes for them.
Subscription information is available at
<ulink url="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Beyond Linux From Scratch</para>
<para>The Beyond Linux From Scratch book covers installation

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!ENTITY version "TESTING-20050707">
<!ENTITY releasedate "July 7, 2005">
<!ENTITY version "TESTING-20050709">
<!ENTITY releasedate "July 9, 2005">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.1">
<!ENTITY generic-version "testing"> <!-- Use "svn", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->