Subject: ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES should be precise
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/26/2005 00:39:44
Instead of define ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES if this package is absolutely
essential, we should require that it be set to the package name itself.
That way if someone chose to define ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES for one
particular package they can't bypass the vulnerabilities warning in
another package.
ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES+= gcpio foo bar baz
In fact, we could make it even more precise such as include version and
PKGREVISION such as:
bmake ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES=gcpio-2.5nb1 install
Thoughts?
(I wonder if anyone sets ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES in their mk.conf...)
Jeremy C. Reed
Media Relations and Publishing Services
http://www.reedmedia.net/