OT: pkg_admin question or the NetBSD way vs the Linux way

[Al Zick <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost>]

Hi,

If you run 'pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities' and then 'pkg_admin  
audit' then you get a list of installed packages that have  
vulnerabilities. Also, NetBSD has a cronjob that runs the audit  
everyday and then emails the output to root.

On Ubuntu I have some packages installed with apt-get and some with  
pkgsrc. Now, the ones that are installed with pkgsrc as the package  
manager I can use the pkg_admin to audit them, but there doesn't seem  
to be anything like this in apt-get, dpkg, or aptitude. I have tried  
using Vuls, but I really don't like the way it works (just the  
thought of creating a key pair just so it can log back into the  
system via ssh and then disabling the password for sudo doesn't make  
it feel real secure to me).

Does anyone know if there is tool similar to pkg_admin audit for Ubuntu?

Kind Regards,
Al