From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 16:32: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D070137B422; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6536566C8C; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:31:58 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric M Logan Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: about gftp... Message-ID: <20010517163158.B58216@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net>; from ericmlogan@mediaone.net on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:20:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:20:00PM -0700, Eric M Logan wrote: > since updating to 4.3 I've noticed that a lot of ports have been marked > broken. For instance, reportmagic, netscape*, and GFTP. Especially in > regards to Gftp, if a port is marked broken is that it? No more app and > deal with it? It's been suggested that the Makefile in the ports dir > could be modified so that the app can be installed anyway but what's the > proper thing to do as I don't want to install a port that has been > marked broken? Thanks. If you don't care about the reason why it's marked broken, then just uncomment the #FORBIDDEN line and build it. We disable ports with security holes so people don't install them by default without knowing the consequences. Kris --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7BF9tWry0BWjoQKURAi2+AKCaqPYuwN1GyBw01Q8aUnBQ9lCCvACg7eye M5dx759FsvlGAiKOOGms654= =gRvT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wzJLGUyc3ArbnUjN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message