portsdb output and portaudit question

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Jul 31 18:48:10 UTC 2006



On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, jan gestre wrote:

> hi guys,
>
> i was trying to portupgrade ruby coz portaudit is complaining of
> vulnerabilities, i did run cvsup and portsdb -Uu before portupgrade, at
> first i couldn't upgrade ruby coz portupgrade is complaining maybe coz
> portaudit but someone in the list suggested this:
>
> # portupgrade -Rr -m DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES="yes" ruby
>
> whoala it installed the ruby package but still portaudit complains even
> though the installed version is current which has no vulnerability. is this
> normal? any way to fix these?
>
> and also prior to portupgrade, i run cvsup then portsdb -Uu  and i have the
> following message/output when i ran  portsdb -Uu:
>
>
> Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> gnome-config: not found
> Package gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk- pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0' found
> "Makefile", line 24: warning: "pkg-config gtk+-2.0
> gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0--cflags" returned non-zero status
> gnome-config: not found
> Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gtk+- 2.0' found
> gnome-config: not found
> Package gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0' found
> "Makefile", line 25: warning: "pkg-config gtk+-2.0
> gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0--libs" returned non-zero status
>
> my box is running FreeBSD 6.1 as webmail server, i do have xorg libraries
> installed but i don't have those packages installed, are they part of the
> xorg libraries?  how can i get rid or fix them?
>
> TIA

Have you tried running pkgdb prior to attempting the update? See the man 
manual for details.

You also might try installing 'portmanager' and running like this:

 	portmanager -u -f -l -y

It will rebuild the ports system and bring in all of the missing 
dependencies.

Just a thought!

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net


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