Description: A new vulnerabilities database has been added to the ports system in order to keep more accurate, up-to-date, track of security vulnerabilities. The ports system now knows how to query that database and dynamically prevents the installation of vulnerable ports.
I had to do some more digging around on various googles to find out that in order to USE this ability, I had to install the portaudit port. This seems like a useful feature, but I'm curious: Why isn't this in the base system?
I tried to install a port which had a conflict (ImageMagick) but I didn't feel the vulnerability was significant enough to warrant waiting for a new port to be created. I looked in the ports man page for an override environment variable, but "vulnerability check" isn't even mentioned there. Could this please get stuck into the manpages?
-Dan Mahoney
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