Installing a vulnerable port

[Bill Moran]

Richard Danter <richard.danter at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD and the ports collection and have hit probably a 
> trivial problem which I hope someone can help with.
> 
> I'm trying to set up a print & file server. I have installed 5.3-RELEASE 
> and successfully compiled a new kernel with lots of stuff removed that I 
> know I don't need. Everything seems to be working fine to this point.
> 
> What I am now doing is trying to install APSFILTER from the ports 
> collection. I have installed and run CVSup, and portaudit. When I try to 
> build APSFILTER it goes well until it gets to the point where it needs 
> Samba (smbclient). It seems there is a known vulnerability and so 
> refuses to build it telling me to update my ports tree. I know the tree 
> is up to date, so I assume there is no fix for this particular problem 
> yet. How can I force the build to ignore this problem for now?

make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes install

This is in the ports manpage, and IIRC, it's also output as part of the
error when the port aborts installation.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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