Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:45:29 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "Eric M Logan" <ericmlogan@mediaone.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: about gftp... Message-ID: <103d01c0df2b$756fc1a0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net>
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> 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. > I've been experiencing similar problems since I started using CVSUP in 4.2 & even after installing 4.3 RELEASE the problems continue. In most cases it appears to related to missing libraries or incompatible dependency. (eg I think its Webmin that insists on SSLeay but even though that was supposed to have been replaced by the OpenSSH thats included in default 4.3, the Webmin port isn't smart enough to know that. One of the experts told me about a workaround that seems to work, but I dunno that "workarounds" should be regarded as best practice. Now when I find something I want is broken / verboten / whatever I've been going to the homepage for the particular application, grabbing the source & compiling that. I suspect that may not be 100% kosher, but so far every one I've done that way has worked properly (fingers crossed) :) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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