Subject: Re: README.html: cannot find vulnerability list
To: Adrian Portelli <adrianp@stindustries.net>
From: David Lord <netbsd@lordynet.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/02/2007 17:38:18
On 2 Aug 2007, at 17:35, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> David Lord wrote:
> > On 2 Aug 2007, at 14:24, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> >> Index: check.mk
> >> ===================================================================
> >> RCS file: /home/joerg/repo/netbsd/pkgsrc/mk/flavor/pkg/check.mk,v
> >> retrieving revision 1.4
> >> diff -u -r1.4 check.mk
> >> --- check.mk 14 Jul 2007 17:17:46 -0000 1.4
> >> +++ check.mk 1 Aug 2007 11:44:03 -0000
> >> @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
> >> #
> >> _flavor-check-vulnerable: .PHONY
> >> ${_PKG_SILENT}${_PKG_DEBUG} \
> >> - _INFO_VER=`${PKG_INFO} -V`; \
> >> - if ${PKG_ADMIN} pmatch 'pkg_install<20070714' pkg_install-$$_INFO_VER; then \
> >> + if ${PKG_ADMIN} pmatch 'pkg_install<20070714' pkg_install-${PKGTOOLS_VERSION}; then \
> >> vulnfile=${PKGVULNDIR:Q}/pkg-vulnerabilities; \
> >> if ${TEST} ! -f "$$vulnfile"; then \
> >> ${PHASE_MSG} "Skipping vulnerability checks."; \
> >
> > I've been using separate PKGVULNDIR (/var/db/audit-packages) with
> > PKGVULNDIR set in both mk.conf and audit-packages.conf.
>
> If you're using pkg_install>=20070714 there's only a need to set it in
> audit-packages.conf. Any setting of PKGVULNDIR in /etc/mk.conf _should_
> be ignored.
>
> >
> > Prior to patch the script was looking for /pkg-vulnerabilities and
> > now looking for it in /usr/pkgsrc_distfiles.
> >
> > David
>
> If you run 'audit-packages -v' it should tell you which configuration
> file it's using. Could you just check that that's the one you expect it
> to be and that you have correctly set PKGVULNDIR in it.
>
> OTOH, there something wrong going on here and joerg@'s patch is a lot
> nicer way to do it than it's currently done. I'll have a look into this.
The patch solves the original problem for default location of
/usr/pkgsrc_distfiles. Here audit-packages.conf is being used and
this is first problem I've noticed. There is a note in check.mk that
implies database is being accessed outside audit-packages.
cheers
David