ports/126853: ports-mgmt/portaudit: speed up audit of installed packages

[Roman Kurakin]

Have you also posted this to ports@?

rik

Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Good day.
>
> A while ago I had created the new utility that serves as VuXML
> filter for the installed packages:
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126853
>
> My primary intention was to speed up the process of auditing the
> vulnerable ports: I needed to run portaudit checks with Nagios and to
> avoid large timeouts.
>
> The new utility is called pkg_audit and it serves as a simple text
> filter: on input it takes the full VuXML feed and on output it puts
> VuXML entries that matches ports that are installed in the system with
> port version specification substituted with the actual port versions.
>
> No harm is done to the actual poartudit -- if pkg_audit is missing, old
> code path is activated.
>
> If someone is interested and will be able to test -- I am all ears.
>
> Thanks!
>