Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:19:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: www/dotproject out of date and vulnerable Message-ID: <20060919231923.64101.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060919230923.GA50556@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:00:14PM -0700, Fred Cox > wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:25:45PM -0700, Fred > Cox > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > "Will fail to package" is pretty far from > > > perfection > > > > > in my book :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't believe I ever said that. It builds > fine > > > and > > > > even runs, it just has lots of bugs. > > > > > > > > Can you let me know what I said that gave you > that > > > > impression? > > > > > > Based on what we've discussed, the proposed > changes > > > to the port will > > > make it fail to build with default settings > (since > > > mysql 4 will be > > > installed), for example on the package build > > > cluster. > > > > > > > I missed that requirement. > > > > So basically, until it can run with PHP 5 and > MySQL 5, > > it's not good enough to be a port. Restricting it > to > > run with PHP 4 will mean that it will be rejected? > > No, I guess you've still misunderstood. I don't > know how many times I > can say this, but let me try to explain once more: > your port should be > buildable with the default settings of all ports > involved. > > This means that you can't place special requirements > like "you have to > first install mysql 3.x, then install the php4-mysql > port, then > install this port", because that is too non-generic > and will not be > true on systems that already have php4-mysql > installed with the > default mysql client. > > The solution, which I explained several messages > ago, is to make an > alternative php4-mysql3 port, which always depends > on mysql 3.x, and > use that instead of php4-mysql (it may need to > conflict with > php4-mysql, I don't know). This really isn't very > hard and you > perhaps could have done it already by now :) > When I was trying to install this in first place, I couldn't install mysql323-client when mysql5-client was already installed. It refused to install. I had to install it into a jail by itself with msyql323 and php4. I assume that will break the requirement that it be buildable with defaults, assuming that some other port that requires mysql has already been built. Is that a bad assumption? Thanks for the education, Fred > Kris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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