Re: Cacti 1.2.17

From: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:06:41 UTC
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:55 PM Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Sorry to bother...
> Cacti was recently upgraded, fixing some security issues.
>
> Are you working on updating the port?
> Is this something trivial I could do myself? Or perhaps you already
> tried and there's some showstopper?

This seems like a minor version update, which *might* be easy, but
computers usually surprise humans.

I would suggest you start with trying to update the version number in
Makefile, and distinfo file (`make makesum`), then checking if the
patches are still valid.  Then build, install and test.

The full document is at https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

Best,
Li-Wen