cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 3 08:30:12 PST 2004


On 2004.04.03 08:21:33 -0800, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> blackend    2004/04/03 08:21:33 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD doc repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml 
>   Log:
>   Add some warnings: people should check http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ before
>   installing any application.

Isn't that a bit overkill?  Ports that have security issues are marked
FORBIDDEN so users can't install them.  If people want extra securirty
they can use portaudit which checks the vuxml databases automatically.

I also think it would be very hard to check vuxml manually in many
cases, since ports can have a lot of dependencies, which might also
contain security problems.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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