Can't upgrade ports collection

Victor Engmark victor.engmark at gmail.com
Tue May 15 10:05:00 UTC 2007


On 5/15/07, Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Victor Engmark wrote:
> > I'm getting reports that some of the packages I've installed have
> > vulnerabilities when running
> > portaudit -Fda
> >
> > I've tried to update the ports tree running
> > cd /usr/ports && portsnap update
> > , but it tells me the tree is already up to date. I've also tried
> removing
> > everything from /usr/ports (even the dot files), and then running
> > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update && portupgrade -a
> > (portsnap update should be redundant, but just to be sure), but nothing
> is
> > upgraded, and portaudit still complains.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> Nothing, the ports tree is frozen right know - virtually nothing will be
> updated until xorg 7.2 gets tested and imported[1].
>

Cool stuff, but do you recommend I uninstall the problematic packages? Also,
aren't security patches normally shipped quickly to the ports tree?

-- 
Victor Engmark
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profound


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