win32 codecs not fixed?

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET ml at t-b-o-h.net
Tue Nov 14 16:30:52 UTC 2006


> 
> Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote:
> > I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security
> > issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it
> > is not.
> > What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the
> > package/port stay restricted until the developer/port owner fix the
> > security issue or does something else happens?
> 
> Run portaudit -F to fetch the most current database. The Issue has been
> removed some time ago by adding the option to not install quicktime (see
> http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/win32-codecs )
> 
	Probably needs to remove /var/db/ports/win32-codecs/options and
then reconfigure it w/o Quicktime. Then it won't give the error anymore.

	Is there a better way to have a port "forget" its previous
options?

			Thanks, Tuc


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