Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

[Robert Huff]

David J Brooks writes:
>  On Tuesday 17 October 2006 22:27, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>  > > From: Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>
>  > > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:51:30 -0400
>  > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>  > >
>  > > Rainer Alves writes:
>  > > >  * mplayer:
>  > > >  [rainer at bsd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer]$ make showconfig | grep -i
>  > > > skin SKINS=on "Force dependency on mplayer-skins"
>  > > >  In my case, mplayer decided to install the dependecy
>  > > >  mplayer-skins during its install phase, the mplayer-skins'
>  > > >  distfiles were corrupted and it failed to install
>  > > >  multimedia/mplayer. I was able to fix this with a rm -f
>  > > >  /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer/* (which removes the skins
>  > > >  distfiles).
>  > >
>  > > 	mplayer also depends of win32-codecs, which is currently
>  > > FORBIDDEN due to security issues.  win32-codecs ahs no maintainer.
>  >
>  > If the latest win32-codecs is installed with default options, the
>  > vulnerability should be removed. Of course, it means you lack
>  > Quicktime. The current version, win32-codecs<3.1.0.p8_1,1 is listed as
>  > safe by portaudit and in the Makefile.
>  
>  How do you get it to build though? Here's what I got:
>  
>  [/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs]# make
>  ===>  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 has known vulnerabilities:
>  => win32-codecs -- multiple vulnerabilities.
>     Reference: 
>  <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e438a.html>
>  => Please update your ports tree and try again.
>  *** Error code 1
>  
>  Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.

	cd usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
	make rmconfig
	make config
	#	[Do NOT select the Quicktime module]
	make clean && make && make install 

	Worked as of 30 minutes ago.


				Robert Huff