www/flock port fails to install
Chad Perrin
perrin at apotheon.com
Mon Jan 28 03:48:50 PST 2008
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100
> Pieter Baele <pieter.baele at telenet.be> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 02:48 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 on this machine. Thanks in
> > > advance
> > > for your time.
> >
> > When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install.
> > You can override this, but I don't remember how.
> > (and I don't want to know it as I trust FreeBSD package
> > maintainers ;-)
>
> Place this in the /etc/make.conf file:
>
> DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes
>
> Use at your own peril.
Considering there is a version 1.0.7 of Flock, and the security warning
is for versions < 1.0.2, my preference would be to simply install a
secure version (preferably without having to rely on Linux compatibility
libraries). Is this not currently possible in FreeBSD for some reason?
--
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