Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:45 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin Message-ID: <200810231140.45159.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com> References: <200810221556.28731.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <200810221805.08009.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 23 October 2008, Valentin Bud wrote: > May i ask a question. Why do you use phpmyadmin from ports? Mainly to keep life simple [1]. > It > installs lots of libraries hence possible security threats in the > future. Well this particular box is already loaded up with what many would regard as too much KDE bloatware so most of the libraries would already be there anyway. > 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. Well, providing it works, I'm not too particular about always having the latest and greatest version but I do want to upgrade if there are any security fixes and portaudit running from cron does a far better job of spotting these than if I had to remember to check manually. It was the a vulnerability reported by portaudit <http://preview.tinyurl.com/5vkfw6>; that prompted me to upgrade phpMyAdmin when I re-instated the web server on this box. [1] There are times when this KISS approach falls down. An earlier portupgrade while I was still running php4 resulted in phpMyAdmin acquiring a dependency on php5, which it promptly installed alongside php4 creating quite a bit of chaos in the process. -- Mike Clarke
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