On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100
> Pieter Baele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 02:48 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 on this machine.  Thanks in
> > > advance
> > > for your time.
> > 
> > When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install.
> > You can override this, but I don't remember how.
> > (and I don't want to know it as I trust FreeBSD package
> > maintainers ;-)
> 
> Place this in the /etc/make.conf file:
> 
>       DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes
> 
> Use at your own peril.

Considering there is a version 1.0.7 of Flock, and the security warning
is for versions < 1.0.2, my preference would be to simply install a
secure version (preferably without having to rely on Linux compatibility
libraries).  Is this not currently possible in FreeBSD for some reason?

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Phillip J. Haack: "Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity.
You can be fast, but if you're going in the wrong direction, you're not
helping anyone."
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