cvsup and portupgrade

Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko at inode.at
Sun Oct 8 05:35:50 PDT 2006


Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> 
>> I just csup'ed my ports tree and ran make on python without any problem.
>>
>> portupgrade is a convenient tool but sometimes it fail for whatever
>> reason, no idea in your case.
> 
> I tried make as you suggest and:
> 
> $ sudo make
> ===>  python-2.4.3_1 has known vulnerabilities:
> => python -- buffer overrun in repr() for unicode strings.
>    Reference:
> <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/fe83eb5b-55e1-11db-a5ae-00508d6a62df.html>
> 
> => Please update your ports tree and try again.
> *** Error code 1

run portaudit -F
it will update your database.
btw. just a sidenote - if you have not done it - after a cvsup of the
portstree you should also update your index (dependencies etc) by
running make index (takes long) or make fetchindex (fast) in /usr/ports.

-- 
Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko at inode.at


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