On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 09:39:59AM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:09:58AM +0500, Артур Истомин wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:17:29PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2016/12/21 10:26, Артур Истомин wrote:
> > > > I'm trying update some ports, but when I invoke "make update" nothing
> > > > happens. 
> > > > 
> > > > Collecting installed packages: ok
> > > > Collecting port versions: ok
> > > > Collecting port signatures|******************Collecting port 
> > > > signatures: ok
> > > > Outdated ports:
> > > > 
> > > > devel/quirks                   # always-update -> quirks-2.241
> > > > net/glib2-networking           # @gnutls-3.4.14 -> @gnutls-3.4.15
> > > > x11/gtk+2,-main                # @gdk-pixbuf-2.34.0 -> 
> > > > @gdk-pixbuf-2.34.0p0
> > > > x11/gtk+3,-guic                # @gdk-pixbuf-2.34.0 -> 
> > > > @gdk-pixbuf-2.34.0p0
> > > > 
> > > > cd x11/gtk+2
> > > > make update
> > > > 
> > > > ...and nothing happens
> > > > 
> > > > I'm doing something wrong?
> > > > My system is OpenBSD 6.0
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > "make update" is not useful in this case.
> > 
> > Is it because it dynamicly linked? Can I not worry about this port?
> > 
> > > In general, "make update" is only really useful for people who are
> > > working on ports development, not for normal users.
> > > 
> > > I'd _strongly_ recommend you just use binary packages.
> > 
> > I'm doing exactly that. But there are ports/packages that not updated 
> > anymore.
> > And they are crucial from security point of view. Example is Firefox. Latest
> > version in ports is 47.0.1. It has many critical vulns. So, I'm now in 
> > position
> > trying to downgrade it to 45.6.0, to upgrade it to 50.1.0 or doing nothing.
> 
> You're doing it wrong ? In that case, use www/firefox-esr port instead of
> butchering www/mozilla-firefox. And if you're using -release/stable, you
> can easily backport -current commits there.. which might not be the case
> for mainline firefox.

Ah, thank you very much for tip! I overlooked somehow this port =(

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