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Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> >
> > If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities,
> > what do you usually do?
> 
> Greatly depend on where am I. All my systems are staying up-to-date 
> whereas when I'm visiting someones system I prefer to update only 
> required pieces of software. Anyway if you tell portmaster to update 
> port x it would try to update all ports it depends on.

Does it often screw things up when updating dependencies (both
ascending and descending ones)? Do you recommend to always update the
ascending dependencies (portmaster -r) also?

[dd]

> The better way of debugging such problems for me is pkg_libchk from 
> sysutils/bsdadminscripts.

I use sysutils/libchk when I have to, but it is a tedious manual job I
would like to avoid.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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