up to date ports...portinstall/portupgrade won't work

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Nov 3 09:42:00 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:32:10AM -0600, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
> I have run up against a brick wall here and i'm not sure where to turn
> next.
> 
> I tried to install openoffice and limewire from a freshly updated ports
> tree  (fresh for openoffice = yesterday, fresh for limewire = 5 minutes
> ago) as well as gnome2.  I get a very similar message at the end of
> each, just different package failures.  The limewire message is below:
> 
> ===>    Verifying reinstall for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so in
> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif
> ===>  open-motif-2.2.3 has known vulnerabilities:
> >> xpm -- image decoding vulnerabilities.
>    Reference:
> <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/ef253f8b-0727-11d9-b45d-000c41e2cdad.html>
> >> Please update your ports tree and try again.
> *** Error code 1

You've instructed your system not to install ports with known
vulnerabilities (via the portaudit port), and so guess what happens
when you try to install a port with a known vulnerability? :-)

N.B.: open-motif is the relevant port here, not limewire.

Kris
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