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: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:37:11 -0700

 On 2013-03-30 13:17, Paul Beard wrote:
 >
 > On Mar 30, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Darren Pilgrim
 > <ports.maintainer at evilphi.com> wrote:
 >
 >> If you get all the way through your list of perl-depending ports
 >> (not the modules, the top-level ports), then you can conclude you
 >> had cruft from a disused perl module.
 >
 > Not sure how to follow your plan with modules that aren't installed,
 > at least not without a lot of extra steps.
 
 Because you're going at it backwards.  Just reinstall the top-level 
 ports.  Top-level ports are things like postgrey, pflogsumm, 
 fastest_cvsup, etc.  Reinstall those ports and they will reinstall perl 
 and perl modules as dependencies.  You can figure out which ports depend 
 on perl modules by simply listing off dependencies for everything you 
 have installed.