Recent massive port update.

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:42:09 -0600, jhell <jhell at dataix.net> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:50, ertr1013@ wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:25:42PM +0300, cvs-src at yandex.ru wrote:
>>> Hi there.
>>> I see some massive port update in past hours, but not see what the
>>> reason of it (nor on freebsd-ports@, nor on freshports.org).  Can
>>> anybody shed the light what was changed?
>>
>> The graphics/jpeg port was updated such that the version number of
>> libjpeg.so was increased.  This necessitated a revision bump in all the
>> ports that depend on graphics/jpeg.  There are *many* such ports.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> [root at smeshariki2 ~]# portsnap fetch
>>> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>>> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
>>> Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
>>> Updating from Fri Feb  5 06:44:34 MSK 2010 to Fri Feb  5 15:57:40 MSK  
>>> 2010.
>>> Fetching 4 metadata patches... done.
>>> Applying metadata patches... done.
>>> Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
>>> Fetching 4282 patches.....
>>
>
>
> I could have swore that I recently heard an announcement that barred  
> this type of activity until after 7.3-RELEASE was made....

Read this:  
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-January/059241.html

> Guess that doesn't stand for everything.

Stick to package if you can't handle it.

> Was there some type of security concern that caused this bump of jpeg in  
> the first place or was it just a creeping featurism?


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