From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 10:40:48 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 8E37F1065679 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.147]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B798FC18 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:40:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1KsxcT-00014Y-T9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:46 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KsxcT-0000Pb-Ab for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:45 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:40:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810221556.28731.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <200810221805.08009.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <139b44430810222359r41a24fb0o893cfd5a7d1e1ca2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810231140.45159.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: dc285bf624b492920a7c14d2aed810d8 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 10:40:48 -0000 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 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