Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

[David J Brooks]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:55, Robert Huff wrote:
> David J Brooks writes:
> >  On Tuesday 17 October 2006 22:27, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >  > > From: Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>
> >  > > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:51:30 -0400
> >  > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> >  > >
> >  > > Rainer Alves writes:
> >  > > >  * mplayer:
> >  > > >  [rainer at bsd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer]$ make showconfig |
> >  > > > grep -i skin SKINS=on "Force dependency on mplayer-skins"
> >  > > >  In my case, mplayer decided to install the dependecy
> >  > > >  mplayer-skins during its install phase, the mplayer-skins'
> >  > > >  distfiles were corrupted and it failed to install
> >  > > >  multimedia/mplayer. I was able to fix this with a rm -f
> >  > > >  /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer/* (which removes the skins
> >  > > >  distfiles).
> >  > >
> >  > > 	mplayer also depends of win32-codecs, which is currently
> >  > > FORBIDDEN due to security issues.  win32-codecs ahs no maintainer.
> >  >
> >  > If the latest win32-codecs is installed with default options, the
> >  > vulnerability should be removed. Of course, it means you lack
> >  > Quicktime. The current version, win32-codecs<3.1.0.p8_1,1 is listed as
> >  > safe by portaudit and in the Makefile.
> >
> >  How do you get it to build though? Here's what I got:
> >
> >  [/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs]# make
> >  ===>  win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 has known vulnerabilities:
> >  => win32-codecs -- multiple vulnerabilities.
> >     Reference:
> > 
> > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/24f6b1eb-43d5-11db-81e1-000e0c2e4
> >38a.html> => Please update your ports tree and try again.
> >  *** Error code 1
> >
> >  Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
>
> 	cd usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
> 	make rmconfig
> 	make config
> 	#	[Do NOT select the Quicktime module]
> 	make clean && make && make install
>
> 	Worked as of 30 minutes ago.

<sigh> Not for me. I get the same error message as before. I wonder what's 
making the difference for you...

This is frustrating because I removed win32-codecs in order to rebuild avifile 
without win32... but apparently that can't be done. Now I'm stuck with 
several ports that won't upgrade due to a dependency on avifile (which still 
depends on win32-codecs...) with the result that my pgkdb demands to 
be -F'd.. and I have nothing to replace the missing dependencies with. :(

And the worst part is, I don't ever use quicktime.. :P

David
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