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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:50:34 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Forcing a port to install?
Message-ID:  <20070802225034.31a9cdc7@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <46B23E19.7040508@chrismaness.com>
References:  <46B23218.60106@chrismaness.com> <20070802194353.GA846@null.mallinanga.de> <46B23E19.7040508@chrismaness.com>

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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:27:05 -0700
Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote:

> Panos P. wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> >   
> >> If a port has been black listed by portaudit, how do you install
> >> it anyway? 
> >
> > try adding DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes to /etc/make.conf
> > (do not forget to unset it afterwards though ;)
> >
> >   
> Why do I get:
> pkg_add: can't stat package file 'wordpress'
> 
> when I I try to use package add?  I guess the packages seem to need
> to be listed under /usr/ports/packages/ per an environment variable,
> but that directory is empty.  pkg_add used to work without the -r
> flag to build a port from source.  What happened?

I don't recall it working like that - if you don't specify -r it take
the argument as a filename. I think you are probably confusing it with
"portupgrade -P"



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