pkg audit false negatives

Remko Lodder remko at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 11 18:45:47 UTC 2017


Hi Roger,

> On 11 Aug 2017, at 17:14, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
>> On 11 Aug 2017, at 04:41, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In the past pkg-audit and even pkg-version have not been reliable tools
>> where installed ports or packages have been subsequently discontinued or
>> renamed.  Today, however, I notice that dovecot2 is still showing up in
>> the output of pkg-version despite the port having been renamed to
>> dovecot (without the numeric suffix) several days ago.
> 

It had been resolved for dovecot (it will now match both variants, since people might still have
the old variant of the port installed) and there is a new paragraph added to the porters handbook
which tells that we need to have a look at the vuxml entries.

Hope this solves your issue,
Remko

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