Hi,

Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20060104224226.GA1576@sanctum.terrorpin.net>, Ben Collver writes:
> 
>>On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:00:02PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>
>>>Is anyone using drupal (www.drupal.org -- it's an open source content 
>>>management system) on netbsd?  It's not in pkgsrc, but given that it's 
>>>PHP-based I suspect that a package could be built fairly easily.
>>
>>I remember hearing about the firefox advocacy site being taken down due
>>to a drupal security issue.  However, I am interested in learning more
>>about drupal, because of its popularity.
>>
>>>From what I have seen of other PHP applications, they are typically
>>heavily modified after installation; often not full-powered out of the
>>box, and requiring a hodge-podge of 3rd party extensions and modules.
>>
>>Is there a way to automatically apply local patches to extracted
>>distfiles without modifying the pkgsrc Makefiles?
>>
>>Ben
>>
> 
> I'm *very* concerned about security, 
[...]

so why are you choosing a *PHP* based application?

(I'm just curious)

Regards,

r.