Re: pkgsrc guide: Incorrect URL for security vulnerabilities file

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 05:57, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 01:00:18AM +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
> > According to
> > <https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/faq.html#audit-packages>, the
> > vulnerability file is available at
> > <ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities>. That URL is
> > wrong.
>
> Why do you think so?
>
> > The right one is
> > <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/vulns/pkg-vulnerabilities>.
>
> That one does not exist.

Where I am at the moment, the remark in the original message is correct.


$ wget ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities
--2020-05-09 07:52:58--
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities
           => ‘pkg-vulnerabilities.1’
Resolving ftp.netbsd.org (ftp.netbsd.org)... 2001:470:a085:999::21,
199.233.217.201
Connecting to ftp.netbsd.org
(ftp.netbsd.org)|2001:470:a085:999::21|:21... failed: No route to
host.
Connecting to ftp.netbsd.org (ftp.netbsd.org)|199.233.217.201|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pkgsrc/distfiles ...
No such directory ‘pkgsrc/distfiles’.
<================================  Checked interactively - there isn't
.

$ wget ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/vulns/pkg-vulnerabilities
--2020-05-09 07:53:45--
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/vulns/pkg-vulnerabilities
           => ‘pkg-vulnerabilities.1’
Resolving ftp.netbsd.org (ftp.netbsd.org)... 2001:470:a085:999::21,
199.233.217.201
Connecting to ftp.netbsd.org
(ftp.netbsd.org)|2001:470:a085:999::21|:21... failed: No route to
host.
Connecting to ftp.netbsd.org (ftp.netbsd.org)|199.233.217.201|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/NetBSD/packages/vulns ... done.
==> SIZE pkg-vulnerabilities ... 1797932
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR pkg-vulnerabilities ... done.
Length: 1797932 (1.7M) (unauthoritative)

pkg-vulnerabilities.1
100%[===================================================================================>]
  1.71M   512KB/s    in 4.1s

2020-05-09 07:53:51 (426 KB/s) - ‘pkg-vulnerabilities.1’ saved [1797932]


>
> Martin

Chavdar


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