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From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: keeping freebsd uptodate - doubt
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--- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>
wrote:

> saravanan ganapathy wrote:
>  > I have done the above steps to update my system
> and
> > when I run 'portversion -v | grep -v "=" ', I am
> > gettin g the perl package only.
> > 
> > freebsd# portversion -v | grep -v "="
> > perl-5.8.5      <  needs updating (port has
> 5.8.6_1)
> > 
> > freebsd# portupgrade perl
> > --->  Upgrading 'perl-5.8.5' to 'perl-5.8.6_1'
> > (lang/perl5.8)
> > --->  Building '/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8'
> > ===>  Cleaning for perl-5.8.6_1
> > ===>  perl-5.8.6_1 has known vulnerabilities:
> > => perl -- File::Path insecure file/directory
> > permissions.
> >    Reference:
> >
>
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/c418d472-6bd1-11d9-93ca-000a95bc6fae.html>
> > => Please update your ports tree and try again.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8.
> > ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script
> -qa
> > /tmp/portupgrade5864.0 make
> > ** Fix the problem and try again.
> > ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped /
> !:failed)
> >         ! lang/perl5.8 (perl-5.8.5)     (unknown
> build
> > error)
> > --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0
> skipped
> > and 1 failed
> > 
> > How to solve this problem?
> 
> Portaudit thinks perl-5.8.6_1 is not safe. It even
> tells you where to
> find more information:
> 
> >
>
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/c418d472-6bd1-11d9-93ca-000a95bc6fae.html
> 
> If you look there it says:
> 
> > Affects:
> > 
> >     * perl >=0 <5.6.2
> >     * perl >=5.8.0 <5.8.6
> 
> Clearly, perl-5.8.6_1 is *not* affected. This leads
> us to conclusion
> that your portadit's database is outdated. To fetch
> new databse simply
> run:
> 
> # portaudit -F
> 

The problem has been solved by updating the portaudit
database.

What is the recommended period to update the ports?

Is there any announcements for any port update? So
that     I can manually update the ports.

Is portupgrade contains the security patches also?

Pls guide me

Sarav







		
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