Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Re: NEW: www/ruby-ferrum new dependency for security/wpscan update

On 06/02 09:33, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > hi, > > this is a new dependency needed to update security/wpscan to 4.0.0. > > cat pkg/DESCR > Ferrum allows you to control headless Chrome browser. > > feedback, or even OK welcome. Looks fine, builds fine with all Ruby versions. OK jeremy@ > to make room for it, devel/ruby-opt_parse_validator, > and security/ruby-cms_scanner can bite the dust, as they were only used by > former wpscan versions < 4. > > see attached quirks patch. > To update security/wpscan, a number of former cms_scanner dependencies that > are now directly required by wpscan have to be updated in concert as well. I recommend against the quirks patch. It only handles the default Ruby version and not other versions. We add a general quirk for Ruby ports when we drop support for that Ruby version, and I think that will take care of things. Best, Jeremy

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