From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 23:56:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B47837B423; Thu, 17 May 2001 23:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA78766; Fri, 18 May 2001 16:54:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <10d901c0df67$96d486f0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Eric M Logan" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" , "FreeBSD stable" References: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net> <20010517163158.B58216@xor.obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: about gftp... Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:55:51 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Unfortunately its rarely as simple as that ... more often than not the problem involves missing libraries or incompatible dependencies. Compiling from source usually works without obvious problems, but that seems a bit of an overkill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message