Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:58:13 -0800 From: Jacob Helwig <jacob@technosorcery.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Issue with Handbook section 5.2 Message-ID: <B06E0DF0-73F5-4B6B-A7B3-EFCCC9AD875A@technosorcery.net>
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In going through the FreeBSD Handbook (as of Sun Dec 7 02:44:11 UTC =
2014), section 5.2 (Overview of Software Installation) mentions using =
ports-mgmt/portaudit to check for security issues. Unfortunately, =
portaudit was removed from ports on October 13th[0].
The commit that removed it says that =E2=80=9Cpkg audit=E2=80=9D should =
be used instead ("portaudit expired when pkg_tools did, use pkg =
audit=E2=80=9D), but as someone pretty new to FreeBSD, it=E2=80=99s not =
clear that this would be appropriate for ports usage. Is =E2=80=9Cpkg =
audit=E2=80=9D appropriate? The language in the warning section of this =
Handbook section suggests that =E2=80=9Cpkg audit=E2=80=9D isn=E2=80=99t =
appropriate outside of package use. If =E2=80=9Cpkg audit=E2=80=9D =
isn=E2=80=99t appropriate, what should be used instead?
-Jacob
[0] =
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/a3523a34bbef563b0b50709f38=
4729fa04bcbb77
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