From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 07:05:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BF6106567B for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83DE8FC2A for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id W6yX1a0090ldTLk5175tcp; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:05:53 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id W75s1a0082P6wsM3Q75seS; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:05:53 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=4VZKEhmwntcA:10 a=sntlU3ZaAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=P5oN_75EwL859fiAqCoA:9 a=XWEhu1LpiR_Tk2vl20cA:7 a=Qsk7_0qxaYYlPxA8Jy3WK4-CThsA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 40AB4C9432; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:05:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Valentin Bud Message-ID: <20081023070552.GA79445@icarus.home.lan> References: <200810221556.28731.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <48FF43D8.6010209@infracaninophile.co.uk> <200810221805.08009.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Mike Clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:05:59 -0000 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:59:57AM +0200, Valentin Bud wrote: > May i ask a question. Why do you use phpmyadmin from ports? It installs > lots of libraries hence possible security threats in the future. So instead > of > taking care of updating a bunch of libraries just for phpmyadmin why don't > you simply download it from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/, put in the apache > doc > root, set it up and so you have to take care to update it when a new version > comes > out. > my 2 cents, > v You're talking about the dependencies it has on bzip2, GD, OpenSSL, PDF, zlib, mcrypt, and mbstring. These are *optional*; nothing stops you from unchecking them in "make config". However, be aware that removing some of them will cause phpmyadmin to work fine, but emit warning messages to the user that feature is not available. This is why said features are enabled by default. I do not advocate downloading software and just "dumping it" into some directory on a machine; if you really want to go that route, then why use ports at all? Heck, why use FreeBSD, just use Slackware Linux. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |