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Date:      Sat, 3 Apr 2004 19:19:19 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <20040403171918.GG870@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20040403170558.GA81162@madman.celabo.org>
References:  <200404031621.i33GLXi0093774@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040403163003.GE870@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20040403170558.GA81162@madman.celabo.org>

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On 2004.04.03 11:05:58 -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 06:30:04PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Isn't that a bit overkill?  Ports that have security issues are marked
> > FORBIDDEN so users can't install them.  If people want extra securirty
> > they can use portaudit which checks the vuxml databases automatically.
> >=20
> > I also think it would be very hard to check vuxml manually in many
> > cases, since ports can have a lot of dependencies, which might also
> > contain security problems.
>=20
> I haven't looked at the diff, but, it would probably be good to say more
> or less:
>=20
>   Please check http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ for security issues, or you
>   can use portaudit to automate the checking for you.

Yes, exactly the point I was trying (and probably failing) to make.

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

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