Matching a name to a port

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:21:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:56:10PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > FreshPorts knows nothing about ImageMagick-nox11 because there is no such
> > > port.  It knows only about ImageMagick, against which commits are made.
> > >
> > > Proposed approach for FreshPorts: I think FreshPorts will ignore package
> > > entries for which it cannot find a corresponding port.  If all packages
> > > for a vuln fail to relate to a port, that will be something which
> > > justifies further investigation.
> >
> > I think that is a reasonable approach.
> 
> FYI, I just realised that FreshPorts can only determine the
> ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}${PKGNAMESUFFIX} for existing ports.  This will
> exclude ports which have been deleted.  Those values aren't easy to grab.

Right, thus my several allusions to a non-existent "package name
history" database. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org