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

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 3 09:19:21 PST 2004


On 2004.04.03 11:05:58 -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:30:04PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> I haven't looked at the diff, but, it would probably be good to say more
> or less:
> 
>   Please check http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ for security issues, or you
>   can use portaudit to automate the checking for you.

Yes, exactly the point I was trying (and probably failing) to make.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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