portmaster question

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Aug 15 15:27:34 UTC 2015


On 08/15/15 10:22, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>
> I went to upgrade my flash port this A.M. (the *only* thing I do from 
> ports, no pkg available due to licensing issues). I crapped out 
> part-way through with pkg-vulnerability issues of some of the 
> dependencies. I tried to restart the process w/ commands to (try to) 
> tell it to ignore those issues, but it doesn't think it has the 
> libflash-plugin port. it is indeed there in the ports tree. I have 
> done a few attempted cleanups, to no avail. If I delete /usr/ports 
> entirely & begin again, will that work OK ? Would a 'portsnap fetch 
> update' work correctly to re-populate the ports tree ? Last effort:
>
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:14:16am] 360 % portmaster -m 
> DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes www/linux-c6-flashplugin 
> graphics/linux-c6-cairo x11/linux-c6-xorg-libs 
> security/linux-c6-cyrus-sasl2 security/linux-c6-openssl-compat 
> x11-toolkits/linux-c6-pango
>
> ===>>> /usr/ports/www/linux-c6-flashplugin does not exist
> ===>>> Aborting update
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:14:19am] 361 % uname -a
> FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p21 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p21 #0: Tue 
> Jul 28 09:02:48 UTC 2015 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:21:00am] 362 %
>
> w/ the portmaster command from the 1st effort to upgrade, interspersed 
> w/ reads of the man page. Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a nice 
> weekend :-) ....


*Aaaaaaaaaaaaack* !!!! The port is called '...plugin11', *not* 
'....plugin' :-/ .... W/ the correct name, all is well. Sorry for the 
noise :-/ ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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