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Date:      Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:37:02 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?K=C3=B6vesd=C3=A1n_G=C3=A1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gaim or aim on 5.4 amd64 ?
Message-ID:  <877BD358067156EA7BFB74C7@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
In-Reply-To: <42F6B222.1030604@t-hosting.hu>
References:  <20050808004123.94325.qmail@web52513.mail.yahoo.com> <42F6B222.1030604@t-hosting.hu>

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--On August 8, 2005 3:15:14 AM +0200 K=C3=B6vesd=C3=A1n G=C3=A1bor=20
<gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> wrote:
>>
> It isn't a compiling error. There is a tool called portaudit, which
> checks the ports against security vulnerabilities, and gaim 1.2.1 has
> some security issues, thus portaudit prevents You from installing it. Is
> your ports tree up-to-date? I don't think so. Gaim 1.2.1 is pretty old.
> Upgrade yout ports tree via cvsup and try again. If the new version has
> security issues, too, You could decide to configure portaudit to ignore
> this problem.
>
Portaudit merely reports on security vulnerabilities in the ports.=20
Portaudit will not prevent the install of a vulnerable port.  The port=20
itself does that, by being marked as FORBIDDEN in the Makefile, because it=20
has a vulnerability.

You can configure portaudit to ignore the vulnerability in that port, but=20
that won't solve the problem of trying to install the port.  To install the =

port you must either update the port (if it's out of date) or install it=20
using DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=3Dyes when you make the port.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/



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