Request for Review: pkgng documentation for the Handbook

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:21:58PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 11/16/12 18:14, Glen Barber wrote:
> 
> >> 5.5.3.4 - is "pkg audit -F" required to update the audit database as
> >> well or it only needed the first time?
> >
> > It is needed to fetch a fresh database, otherwise the local audit file
> > will be used.  I'll update this to note to use '-F'.
> 
> Completely off topic, but... Has the periodic script for checking 
> security issues in ports been updated to do this?  Is there any simple 
> way to detect if pkgng is in use from a shell script and if that's the 
> case, run this rather than portaudit.  From my understanding of things, 
> portaudit is not supported (or perhaps not needed) when using pkgng.
> Regards!

I do not know how portaudit works underneath, but there is a local
periodic script installed with pkgng to audit the system.

Glen

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