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

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.04.04 01:00:50 +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:30:04PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I think we'd better introduce portaudit to users, so I'd proposal
> the patch attached.

This looks great and removes any objections I have to the origninal
change.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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