Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matching a name to a port Message-ID: <20040913160315.C22240@xeon.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20040913190509.GK71191@madman.celabo.org> References: <20040913123610.G22240@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040913135431.F22240@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040913144103.U22240@xeon.unixathome.org> <20040913190509.GK71191@madman.celabo.org>
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 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.
FYI, I just realised that FreshPorts can only determine the
${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME}${PKGNAMESUFFIX} for existing ports. This will
exclude ports which have been deleted. Those values aren't easy to grab.
--
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