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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2007 12:04:58 +0200
From:      "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com>
To:        karol.kwiat@gmail.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't upgrade ports collection
Message-ID:  <7d4f41f50705150304vbdda3f4gd017ca291d725a68@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <464983F2.2060100@gmail.com>
References:  <7d4f41f50705150245v71b8cef5i4116bfdc5dde2ddf@mail.gmail.com> <464983F2.2060100@gmail.com>

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On 5/15/07, Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Victor Engmark wrote:
> > I'm getting reports that some of the packages I've installed have
> > vulnerabilities when running
> > portaudit -Fda
> >
> > I've tried to update the ports tree running
> > cd /usr/ports && portsnap update
> > , but it tells me the tree is already up to date. I've also tried
> removing
> > everything from /usr/ports (even the dot files), and then running
> > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update && portupgrade -a
> > (portsnap update should be redundant, but just to be sure), but nothing
> is
> > upgraded, and portaudit still complains.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Nothing, the ports tree is frozen right know - virtually nothing will be
> updated until xorg 7.2 gets tested and imported[1].
>

Cool stuff, but do you recommend I uninstall the problematic packages? Also,
aren't security patches normally shipped quickly to the ports tree?

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound



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