From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 22:11:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F7316A400 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C1A43D45 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:11:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED63D4C92C for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:11:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:11:11 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: JQkMxaDmHEyOgD6rE9UD5WH84EvVyhNPHuSwwNkmbw71 1145571070 Received: from bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91A771E2 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:11:10 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:11:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <4447FC54.7090305@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4447FC54.7090305@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604202311.45346.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: portmanager and linux-flashplugin6 removed 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, 20 Apr 2006 22:11:48 -0000 On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:25, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi > > I've just cvsup'ed ports and run portmanager -s. Part way through it > asks me if it can remove linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 because of the > licencing issue. When I say no portmanager quits. Actual output below. > > 1) Would it be possible for portmanager to at least allow me to complete > the status request? > 2) Since I installed linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 before macromedia > changed the licence shouldn't I be able to keep it? > 3) Is the FreeBSD project required to make sure that I remove this port > as opposed to bringing it to my attention that I may be legally required > to remove it? This is nothing to do, with the legal position. Portmanager just can't hand this situation; all it can do is work on the assumption that the functionality has moved elsewhere and remove the port to prevent conflicts. You could try using the -ip option, or alternately restore the original port contents, and do minimal maintainence on it yourself.