How to Fix Port Audit showing ports not installed on a system
Paul Macdonald
paul at ifdnrg.com
Tue Aug 6 17:11:43 UTC 2013
On 06/08/2013 17:25, dweimer wrote:
> I have a system that I just recently setup port audit, after realizing
> I forgot to install it on the machine. The problem is that it is
> finding vulnerabilities in several ports that are not installed on
> the system. These may have been installed at one point and
> removed. Firefox is one of the ones listed, I know that it was on the
> system previously, but was removed a few months back. portmaster -l
> and pkg info don't list it as installed, but port audit shows:
> firefox-20.0,1. Where would portaudit be picking up these ports
> from? Is there anyway to reset its database?
>
rm -R /var/db/portaudit/
then run portaudit -Fda
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