Any chance of an upgraded x11-toolkits/linux-pango?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:38:42 +0200 (CEST)
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Until we're all ready to move to 8.0, those of us who wants to run
> Adobe Reader 9.1.3 on 7.2 have no other option but to use
> x11-toolkits/linux-pango along with emulators/linux_base-fc4.
> 
> I know the native x11-toolkits/pango was updated to correct for the
> integer overflow bug, but what about x11-toolkits/linux-pango?
> 
> Please fix x11-toolkits/linux-pango.

The number of systems that are running Fedora Core 4 are very few and
far between. I doubt that it will ever be fixed. A better answer is to
upgrade your system to use Fedora 10. It works fine on 7.2 systems.

If you upgrade, look at the messages on upgrading the Linux emulation in
/usr/port/UPDATING 20090401. Note the sysctls and make requirements.

After upgrading linux_base to F10, you will need to re-install almost
all linux-* ports to the linux-f10-* version. linux-nvu and
linux-realplayer are exceptions. 

That said, linux-f10-pango is also now listed as vulnerable, and I am
unsure when it will be updated, though discussion has been on-going for
the past three or four days.

Hopefully someone with an Fedora 10 system can build a new RPM to fix
it. Rumor has it that pango built on a Fedora 11 system will also work,
but I have no confirmation of that.
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