portaudit is being stubborn

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Sat May 21 09:12:49 PDT 2005


I'd like to see it done, but I know just enough sh scripting to be 
dangerous. ;)

If it were perl I'd be all over it.   Any takers? :)

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Thomas Hurst wrote:

> * Chris (chrcoluk at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> This annoys me as well, I expect portaudit to alert me when an update
>> is available to fix an exploit, but wget has no update so what is the
>> point of the warning, there also seems to be no way to shut it up.
>
> portaudit_fixed is only for OS bugs (i.e. associated with
> kern.osreldate).  portaudit is just a shell script; if it bothers you
> that much, submit a patch to make it work for port problems too, or
> send-pr :)
>
> Looks like a case of moving the "if (fixedre && $2 ~ fixedre) next" line
> outside the "$1 ~ /^FreeBSD[<=>!]/ {" section around line 140, or
> something to that effect.
>
> -- 
> Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
>    http://hur.st/
>


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