From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 17 16:40:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (lsmls01.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D38FB37B423; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:40:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ericmlogan@mediaone.net) Received: from mediaone.net (we-24-130-92-248.we.mediaone.net [24.130.92.248]) by lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4HNeQk17949; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B046022.5F6A8544@mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:34:58 -0700 From: Eric M Logan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: about gftp... References: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net> <20010517163158.B58216@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for responding. I understand why it would be broken so I guess my question is, will it be fixed or is that it? Thanks Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- ***************************** Eric M Logan ericmlogan@mediaone.net eric_m_logan@yahoo.com ***************************** Flames to /dev/null plz. :) ***************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message