Please rebuild all ports that depend on PNG

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Sat Jun 2 18:07:08 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 17:34:59 +0100
Chris Rees articulated:

>On Jun 2, 2012 5:27 PM, "Jerry" <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 11:07:28 -0400
>> b. f. articulated:
>>
>> >> > Realy no other possibility?!
>> >>
>> >> You need to rebuild all the ports that install binaries that link
>> >> against libpngNN.so.NN.  That is actually a subset of the ports
>> >> that depend on graphics/png -- unfortunately it takes some effort
>> >> to identify precisely what does need rebuilding.  There is the
>> >> pkg_libchk script (which is part of sysutils/bsdadminscripts) that
>> >> can help.
>> >...
>> >> Use pkg_libchk to prioritise the ports that really need to be
>> >> rebuilt.
>> >
>> >Lawrence Stewart's convenient script can be used with portmaster to
>> >perform this kind of update:
>> >
>> >https://lauren.room52.net/hg/scripts/raw-file/tip/libdepend/libdepend.sh
>>
>> I am receiving a: "This Connection is Untrusted" warning from Firefox
>> when I attempt to connect to that URL. It is probably harmless;
>> however, it certainly doesn't instill confidence is someone viewing
>> the site for the first time.
>>
>
>It just means he hasn't bought a certificate- no less trustworthy than
>vanilla (non-SSL) http.

IMHO, if you are going to use "https" then you should have a proper SSL
certificate. A self-signed one means virtually nothing. If the web site
operator is not going to purchase an authentic certificate they why
use SSL at all? Just my 2¢ on the matter.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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