Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:05:09 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matching a name to a port Message-ID: <20040913190509.GK71191@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040913144103.U22240@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <20040913123610.G22240@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040913174748.GC71191@madman.celabo.org> <20040913135431.F22240@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040913183627.GG71191@madman.celabo.org> <20040913144103.U22240@xeon.unixathome.org>
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:56:10PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > FreshPorts knows nothing about ImageMagick-nox11 because there is no such > port. It knows only about ImageMagick, against which commits are made. > > Proposed approach for FreshPorts: I think FreshPorts will ignore package > entries for which it cannot find a corresponding port. If all packages > for a vuln fail to relate to a port, that will be something which > justifies further investigation. I think that is a reasonable approach. [...] > Yep, I've had them in mind too, and was wondering how they did it. They > have the advantage of a list of installed packages/ports. FreshPorts does > not. I now think that's OK. Right, they are looking either at already-installed packages, or perhaps at about-to-be-installed packages. In both cases, the actual package name is already available. [...] > FreshPorts has never stored that information. I see now that it will have > to. With luck, this information will be pretty static over the life of a > port and everything will just fall into place with respect to historical > entries. /me crosses fingers :-) [...] > > I'm not sure what you mean :-( Maybe you mean once you have the package > > names correlated to port names within FreshPorts, later moves will be > > "caught" automatically? > > Yes. It's hard to phrase. For example, you can view deleted ports in > FreshPorts, which will retain the history. OK, I think I follow. Thanks!! Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org
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