Forcing a port to install?

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Thu Aug 2 21:50:39 UTC 2007


On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:27:05 -0700
Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:

> Panos P. wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> >   
> >> If a port has been black listed by portaudit, how do you install
> >> it anyway? 
> >
> > try adding DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes to /etc/make.conf
> > (do not forget to unset it afterwards though ;)
> >
> >   
> Why do I get:
> pkg_add: can't stat package file 'wordpress'
> 
> when I I try to use package add?  I guess the packages seem to need
> to be listed under /usr/ports/packages/ per an environment variable,
> but that directory is empty.  pkg_add used to work without the -r
> flag to build a port from source.  What happened?

I don't recall it working like that - if you don't specify -r it take
the argument as a filename. I think you are probably confusing it with
"portupgrade -P"


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