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From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
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Subject: Re: pkg audit-pkg RFQ
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> pkg audit already takes an optional pkgname argument, and it will give
> you all the vulnerability reports for that package, even if not
> installed.

Great news, thanks Matt.  Didn't see this while perusing the source code.
Perhaps the man page should be updated:

   < audit   Audit installed packages against known vulnerabilities.
   > audit   Audit installed packages or package/s specified on the command line against known vulnerabilities.

> What it doesn't do is filter by either the installed version or the
> available versions in your configured repos. That would be good
> functionality to have, but I don't think it warrants adding a whole extra
> verb to pkg(8); just a few command line flags to pkg audit.

Also doesn't parse stdin but I agree this should be easy to workaround.

Roger