Recent massive port update.

[jhell]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:59, mezz7@ wrote:
> 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.
>

Is this just one package that I'm allowed or can I use packages too ? ;)

Insightful. I don't see how this warranted that I can't handle it but hey 
to each his own opinion.

It's a question.

GAL

>> 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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  jhell