FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

[Lars Engels]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:34:05AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:29:10AM +0100, linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
> > 
> > portname:           math/dislin
> > broken because:     size mismatch
> > build errors:       none.
> > overview:           http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=math&portname=dislin
> > 
> 
> Is this a security concern?
> I've never used this port before, but it looks intersting.
> 
> By doing
> 
> rm distinfo*
> make makesum
> 
> I can install this port. Is this not a good idea?

No, it is not. You must check, why the distfile has a different
checksum. It may be because there was a back door inserted.
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