Package security audit tools

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:
> I am looking for a package security audit tools similar to portaudit
> on FreeBSD.

Although I know nothing about FreeBSD, it kinda sounds like apticron...

==> aptitude show apticron
Package: apticron
State: not installed
Version: 1.1.20
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 90.1k
Depends: apt-listchanges (>= 2.59), mailx, debconf | debconf-2.0,
iproute, apt (>= 0.6.8)
Description: cron-script to mail impending apt updates
 apticron is a simple script to mail about impending apt updates such
as security updates. If you need to schedule more complex APT tasks we
recommend you use the (more complex) cron-apt tool.