Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:43:09 +0100 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: ports freeze and portaudit alerts Message-ID: <20041010204308.GA29900@lb.tenfour>
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I've recently returned to FreeBSD from a tour around various other free OSes - last time I used it seriously was around 4.7, I think, and 5.3 seems to be light years ahead functionality wise. So first off, congratulations. But I'm a little alarmed by the pre 5.3 release ports freeze - portaudit has flagged an awful lot of packages as having holes and refused to install them. Off the top of my head : mozilla, cups (and therefore most of kde) and firefox/bird. Shouldn't serious bugs (like the JPEG vuln in firefox for example) to override the freeze? I know the software could just be installed by hand but that loses you a lot of benefits (not least portaudit). I just wondered if there is a policy to not upgrade ports under any circumstances, or if this is just an oversight? I can imagine this would make me very twitchy if I was running production boxes during a freeze.... or have I missed something, and this doesn't affect 4.* users? -- Tempers are wearing thin. Let's hope some robot doesn't kill everybody. - Bender Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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