Re: HEADS UP: security/audit-packages removal

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Adrian Portelli wrote:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Adrian Portelli <adrianp%stindustries.net@localhost> writes:
> >
> > > Unless there are any major objections I'm going to remove
> > > security/audit-packages from pkgsrc on 13th January.
> > >
> > > The current pkgtools/pkg_install package provides new functionality and
> > > better performance than the current audit-package package.
> >
> > Is it the case that on all installed systems with pkgtools in the base
> > system, that either a) pkgsrc will object to the tools as old and force
> > pkg_install from pkgsrcrc or b) the base system tools include
> > audit-packages?  If that's true, sounds fine to me.
>
> If you're running NetBSD HEAD dated after 20070714 you will have the new
> audit-packages files in the base system.  You can still install
> pkgtools/pkg_install if you wish, as they will install to ${PREFIX} and
> pkgsrc will use them in preference to the pkg_install in the base.
>
> As of pkg_install-20070714 security/audit-packages and
> pkgtools/pkg_install will conflict as they both install the same
> audit-packages files.  So, if someone is running security/audit-packages
> and they wish to upgrade after I remove the package from CVS it's a
> simple matter of 'pkg_delete audit-packages' and install an updated
> pkg_install.

I'm unclear on the whole thing. On my -current system, audit-packages
does nothing. Well, it does something but doesn't indicate anything.
What am I supposed to be doing to check my packages on -current?

I'm also sane and run "stable" versions of netbsd on several
"production" servers rather than -current. What do I use instead of
audit-packages?

Apparently something changed and I missed the notification, or perhaps
it was all decided on netbsd-core and the regular folks have no idea
what's going on. (Yes, this is yet another ignored complaint about
netbsd-core's opacity.)

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