bypassing forbidden

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 20:44:37 -0500, David Banning wrote:
> I have had a number of ports that are marked as security problems
> or are forbidden. Can I bypass this warning somehow and still
> compile?

At your own risk.  In the Makefile you'll find something like:

FORBIDDEN=	"Security vulnerability, see bugtraq id 5808"

Change this to

# FORBIDDEN=	"Security vulnerability, see bugtraq id 5808"

After that you can install.  Check what you're letting yourself in for
first.

Greg
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