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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:45:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber), marquis@roble.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd 
Message-ID:  <22464.905759121@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:06:05 PDT." <199809140706.AAA16521@bubba.whistle.com> 

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In message <199809140706.AAA16521@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes:

>If someone was interested, it would be easy to write a script
>that checks all the ports:

By all means go for it :-)

Poul-Henning

>
> - mount / and /usr read-only
> - mount /usr/local and /usr/local2 read-write, initially empty
>   except for the directory structure
> - save mtree dumps of every file in /usr/local and /usr/local2
> - cycle through every port and:
>   - build the port with PREFIX=/usr/local
>   - install the port, then uninstall the port
>   - compare the contents of /usr/local with the mtree file
>   - build the port with PREFIX=/usr/local2
>   - install the port, then uninstall the port
>   - compare the contents of /usr/local2 AND /usr/local
>     with the mtree files
>
>If any port exhibited bad behavior, it could also automatically
>generate a send-pr report :-)
>
>-Archie
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
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>
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