Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:41:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can portaudit report a fixed date/version? Message-ID: <20041019163753.U74644@xeon.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20041019145952.GA22119@madman.celabo.org> References: <20041017201037.V55729@xeon.unixathome.org> <20041019145952.GA22119@madman.celabo.org>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 08:13:02PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > Hi folks: > > > > I have portaudit installed. Each morning I get notified if there are any > > vulnerabilities that I should know about. That's good. > > > > I think portaudit should also tell me if it knows there is a fix available > > in the tree. That would immediately tell me that I can cvsup and get the > > problem fixed. > > > > Comments? > > The VuXML format contains only which packages are affected, and not > an direct indicator whether or not a fix has been applied. This is > by design. Including that information would be redundant. From > VuXML, you know what package versions are affected. From the Ports > Collection, you know what package versions are available. My thoughts were that an additional field could easily be added that indicated whether or not a fix had been applied to the Ports Collection. This would enabled portaudit to report immediately. > A tool such as portaudit could compute whether a fix is available or > not for you. It might be a nice feature. It would be a useful feature. It would save many admins quite a bit of time. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/
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