Evince fails upgrade

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 22:43:51 -0700
> Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Port readers
>> >
>> > I am unable to upgrade to latest evince due to following failure.
>> > Evince now calls for www/yelp which calls for www/libxul which has
>> > vulnerabilities.
>> >
>> > [robert at dell64] /usr/ports/x11/yelp% sudo make install clean
>> >
>> >  yelp is using libxul for gecko support, but you can
>> >  change that by defining WITH_GECKO to the following values:
>> >
>> >   libxul
>> >
>> > ===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
>> > ===>  Extracting for yelp-2.30.2_2
>> > => SHA256 Checksum OK for gnome2/yelp-2.30.2.tar.bz2.
>> > /bin/rm -f /usr/ports/x11/yelp/work/yelp-2.30.2/data/yelp.schemas
>> > ===>  Patching for yelp-2.30.2_2
>> > ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for yelp-2.30.2_2
>> > ===>   yelp-2.30.2_2 depends on
>> > file: /usr/local/lib/libxul/libxul.so - not found ===>    Verifying
>> > install for /usr/local/lib/libxul/libxul.so
>> > in /usr/ports/www/libxul ===>  libxul-1.9.2.28 has known
>> > vulnerabilities: Affected package: libxul-1.9.2.28 Type of problem:
>> > mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities. Reference:
>> > http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/380e8c56-8e32-11e1-9580-4061862b8c22.html
>> > => Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1
>> >
>> > Stop in /usr/ports/www/libxul.
>> > *** Error code 1
>> >
>> > Stop in /usr/ports/www/libxul.
>> > *** Error code 1
>> >
>> > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/yelp.
>> >
>> > I have tried to comment out the WITH_GECKO line but that fails also.
>> > The Makefile already has
>> >
>> > WITH_GECKO=  libxul
>> >
>> > What do I need to change it to?
>>
>> There is nothing to change it to, as far as I know. There used to
>> other options, but libxul is the only one left.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it has a vulnerability, so won't build. You can either
>> force it by setting DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES and live with the
>> vulnerability or wait until libxul is fixed, assuming that it is.
>> Other ports that use GECKO have the same problem.
>
> Kevin
>
> Thanks for responding. Evince had never needed yelp or libxul before
> the last upgrade (port revision 8). I checked the diff of the Makefile
> with my back up from last week and the only difference was a change in
> "run depends" adding yelp.
>
> I commented out that portion of run depends and evince built without a
> problem. Evince runs perfectly as a stand alone and with firefox just
> as before.

It does need yelp when you go to the help menu. Of course, it's only
for people that need the help menu.

Cheers,
Mezz


> I have added gnome@ to this email.
>
> Thank you again for the help.
>
> Robert


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