ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint checking

[Darren Pilgrim]

The following reply was made to PR ports/177416; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Darren Pilgrim <ports.maintainer at evilphi.com>
To: Paul Beard <paulbeard at gmail.com>
Cc: "bug-followup at FreeBSD.org" <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/177416: mail/postgrey has surfaced a bug in perl's taint
 checking
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:14:29 -0700

 On 2013-04-03 09:05, Paul Beard wrote:
 > So this is resolved, as best I can tell with no inbound smtp to check
 > it with. I never determined what port was the issue.
 
 I agree it seems like the issue is solved and we can close this PR.
 
 > Are there any existing scripts or tools that review installed ports,
 > other than libchk and pkg_check?
 
 portugprade comes with some extra tools.  I just use portmaster and the 
 basic pkg tools.
 
 > What I take away from this is that I
 > should be prepared to rip out every perl module and then reinstall
 > all the leaf ports, just to make sure there are no collisions. So in
 > the event perl5.16 becomes the default, I may do that.
 
 I don't think that's necessary.  A lot of what you just did was cleaning 
 out stale ports and (hopefully) correcting any package database 
 corruption.  I'd do the normal perl5.n -> perl5.(n+2) upgrade process 
 first and see if it works.