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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:18:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Package Vulnerability scanner (CVS commit: pkgsrc (fwd))
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009201717040.74609-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000920184458.S35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com>

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:37:42PM -0400, James Housley wrote:
> > Unless I hear someone has started I will take a crack at this.
> 
> Beat you to it.  I already submitted one to Kris.

The real difficulty here is developing the list of vulnerable packages -
in order for it to be useful, we should at least cover the advisories
released this year. NetBSD also integrated it into their bsd.pkg.mk
somehow - I didn't check what they did.

Kris

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