From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 14:00:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5A8C14F; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from land.berklix.org (land.berklix.org [144.76.10.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 484BEF1E; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBDDA0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.203.221.160]) (authenticated bits=128) by land.berklix.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s9SDv2K0086979; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:57:06 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s9SE0O74095877; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s9SE07p2010173; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Message-Id: <201410281400.s9SE07p2010173@fire.js.berklix.net> To: hrs@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: print/acroread9 Adobe Reader From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultants, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:07 +0100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:00:46 -0000 Hi hrs@FreeBSD.org & ports@freebsd.org I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in ports/. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/MOVED?revision=371318&view=markup#l6509 print/acroread9||2014-08-30|Deprecated: many security issues are reported and Adobe no longer actively supports Adobe Reader for Unix https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/print/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/RELENG_9_2_0/print/acroread9/Makefile?view=markup https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_3_0/print/acroread9/ https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_10_0_0/print/acroread9/ I am Forced to use Adobe Reader by British government tax office. http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/ct600.html I know it's a can of worms, but I had that can of worms under control, eg: - As binaries without source stink & scream "Insecurity" - I ran it inside a chroot, - I ran it as a spare user. - As it devoured CPU/RAM & froze screen, I ran it on a spare host. - As it freaked on AMD+NFS [remote host lock?] file access I ran it on a local, non NFS'd home/ Yes it is a can of worms ... but that can of worms is Needed ! - It handles the XML inside PDF tax form calculations - It does the security key interchange stuff the tax office want (No idea, the tax office just says "Click Here & There" & tax office fail to document what protocols servers standards etc) Removing acroread for security reasons was Really Bad ! It forces me to use the stinkingly More Insecure Microsoft to run the same Adobe Reader the tax office demand. A lot of effort must have gone to build & maintain the port, & now its ripped out of the tree, it forces me & perhaps others to individually maintain private copies as long as we can, with wasted future duplicate maintenance effort, & not available to easily share - all very inefficient. It should please be reinstated but with a WARNING= added to Makefile If the old maintainer hrs@ doesn't want to maintain it, I will if no one else wants to (but I hope hrs@ will :-). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix'78 C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play script. Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.