Re: install/46646: sysinst should configure fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities automatically if you choose to install pkgsrc

[Julian Djamil Fagir <jdf%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/46646; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Djamil Fagir <jdf%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/46646: sysinst should configure
 fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities automatically if you choose to install pkgsrc
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:24:46 +0200

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 Hi,
 
 > >Synopsis:       sysinst should configure fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities
 > >automatically if you choose to install pkgsrc Confidential:   no
 >
 > It's great that sysinst now provides the option to automatically install
 > pkgsrc.  It would be fantastic if this would also set up
 > fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities.
 >=20
 > The way I've been doing this manually is to run:
 > mkdir /var/db/pkg
 > pkg_admin rebuild
 > pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities
 >=20
 > Then in crontab:
 > 0 3 * * * /usr/sbin/pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities >/dev/null 2>&1
 > 0 4 * * * /usr/sbin/pkg_admin audit=20
 there are many tasks one could add to sysinst that would be useful, but it's
 all at the cost of usability.
 For fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities to be useful in most scenarios the MTA must be
 set up, thus network being set up, etc, a long ist of dependencies.
 I would consider this fine-tuning rather than setup. And I think sysinst
 should stay minimal, with only a selected set of actions to be performed
 which are really needed for initial setup.
 
 Regards, Julian
 
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