portdowngrade/portupgrade question

[Jase Thew]

Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
> Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen at pp.nic.fi> [2007.01.18] wrote:
>>> What have I missed?
>> Update your ports tree, that version of fetchmail has vulnerabilities.
> 
> I know that. But fetching with fetchmail stopped working when I did that
> (when the new port came I did a portupgrade, forgot to kill & restart
> fetchmail, when I did so a day or so later it just dumped core), and
> I'm trying to pin down exactly what is going wrong. As part of that I
> want to try to go back to the old fetchmail and try it *fully knowing
> that it has vulnerabilities*.  Which appears to be either obscure,
> difficult or impossible. 
> 
> /Par
> 

portupgrade -f -m '-DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES' fetchmail