Subject: Re: pkg-vulnerabilties over HTTP
To: Adrian Portelli <adrianp@NetBSD.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/21/2006 16:20:52
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:40:55PM +0100, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to let everyone know I've now added support to
> security/audit-packages for fetching the pkg-vulnerabilities file over
> HTTP.  It's documented in the man page but for the impatient just add
> the following to your ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/audit-packages.conf file:
> 
> FETCH_PROTO="http"

That's great.  I have a site where I can't use FTP (broken firewall), and
I used rsync to get the pkg-vulnerabilities file, but this is much easier.
Thanks!  

Btw, using HTTP is also much quicker than FTP: 2.5" vs 7.5" (due to all
the CWD commands).  

	Geert