A lot of pkg ask to install compat6x-amd64 on current

[Nikolai Lifanov]

> On 29/07/2017 11:50, Artyom Mirgorodsky wrote:
>> Hi I see that a lot of pkg ask to install compat6x-amd64. But portmaster
>> doesn't require compat6x-amd64. I think this is a bag and possible has
>> security problem as this package is very old
> 
> How are you invoking pkg(8) that you see this requirement for compat6x,
> and what are you seeing that pulls in the compat6x dependency?
> 
> By my count there are 4 ports that depend directly on misc/compat6x.
> This does not count any ports that depend on these indirectly:
> 
> % grep -R misc/compat6x *
> devel/cscout/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS+=	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> devel/eiffelstudio/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS=	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> lang/cmucl/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS=	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> misc/compat6x/pkg-descr:LIB_DEPENDS+=	c.6:misc/compat6x
> misc/compat6x/Makefile:# $FreeBSD: head/misc/compat6x/Makefile 444437
> 2017-06-27 00:05:15Z linimon $
> security/retranslator/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS+=	libm.so:misc/compat6x
> 
> Now, I wouldn't characterize four ports as "a lot", and I certainly
> haven't see any ports myself that pull in compat6x on anything I've been
> managing recently.
> 
> Anything still requiring compat6x is probably pretty elderly and
> unmaintained, but that's a question for ports at .
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

I can corroborate: I also have a system where pkg installs
compat6x-amd64 on every update and then "pkg autoremove" removes it.

There is even a bug open for it:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220755

- Nikolai

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