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Date:      Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:58:43 +0100
From:      Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to Fix Port Audit showing ports not installed on a system
Message-ID:  <52012B43.5000000@ifdnrg.com>
In-Reply-To: <58b0a130601de49508aa7f7b8c1c9833@dweimer.net>
References:  <58b0a130601de49508aa7f7b8c1c9833@dweimer.net>

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On 06/08/2013 17:25, dweimer wrote:
> I have a system that I just recently setup port audit, after realizing 
> I forgot to install it on the machine.  The problem is that it is 
> finding vulnerabilities in several ports that are not installed on 
> the  system.  These may have been installed at   one  point and 
> removed.  Firefox is one of the ones listed, I know that it was on the 
> system previously, but was removed a few months back.  portmaster -l 
> and pkg info don't list it as installed,  but port audit shows: 
> firefox-20.0,1.  Where would portaudit be picking up these ports 
> from?  Is there anyway to reset its  database?
>
rm -R /var/db/portaudit/

then run portaudit -Fda


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