This is great.  Has anybody already written chef automation to handle automatic 
updating to fix vulns?



> On 21 Oct 2014, at 07:26, Jonathan Perkin via smartos-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> * On 2014-10-20 at 16:53 PDT, Joe Malcolm via smartos-discuss wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way using pkgin to check packages against the pkgsrc
>> vulnerabilities list?
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/vulnerabilities
> 
> No, it's pkg_admin(1)'s job to do that.  The normal usage is:
> 
>  # Download latest vulnerabilities file
>  $ pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities
> 
>  # Show current vulnerabilities in installed packages
>  $ pkg_admin audit
> 
>> This file does not seem to be in the githib joyent pkgsrc repository,
>> which may or may not be relevant.
> 
> It is distributed outside of pkgsrc deliberately, so that it can
> easily be updated and downloaded independently across branches.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com
> 
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