portdowngrade/portupgrade question

Andresen, Jason R. jandrese at mitre.org
Thu Jan 18 19:21:35 UTC 2007


>From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org 
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pertti Kosunen
>
>Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
>> Nope, that does not do it, what it did was remove the old (6.3.6)
>> version and fail to install the new version. I also tried going to
>> /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail and doing a "make install". Pretty 
>much same
>> error ("fetchmail -- TLS enforcement problem/MITM attack/password
>> exposure[...] Please update your ports tree and try again").
>>
>> What have I missed?
>
>Update your ports tree, that version of fetchmail has vulnerabilities.

If you're wondering how to upgrade your ports tree, there is a good
handbook entry on it:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.h
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