Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:30:34 -0500 From: ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports patch count Message-ID: <201206011630.35183.lumiwa@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FC88A78.2090902@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FC873F2.5030102@gmail.com> <4FC87E89.3050609@my.gd> <4FC88A78.2090902@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday 01 June 2012 04:25:12 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/06/2012 09:34, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 6/1/12 9:49 AM, Brent Clark wrote: > >> Hiya > >> > >> I would just like to ask / know. Did anything weird or wonderful happen > >> on the FreeBSD ports. > >> > >> To show you what I mean. > >> > >> [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# portaudit -F -a; portsnap fetch update; > >> pkg_version -vIL=; freebsd-update fetch install > >> auditfile.tbz 100% of 77 kB 6570 Bps > >> 00m00s > >> New database installed. > >> 0 problem(s) in your installed packages found. > >> Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 9 mirrors found. > >> Fetching snapshot tag from geodns-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. > >> Fetching snapshot metadata... done. > >> Updating from Thu May 31 19:58:31 SAST 2012 to Fri Jun 1 08:51:05 SAST > >> 2012. > >> Fetching 4 metadata patches... done. > >> Applying metadata patches... done. > >> Fetching 0 metadata files... done. > >> Fetching 4180 patches.....10....20....30....40.... > >> > >> 4180 patches really !!! > >> > >> I run the above command almost everyday, so the most I have ever really > >> seen is 300 - 400 patches. But 4180 has got me attention. > >> > >> Thanks > >> Brent > > > > I may be mistaken but I would guess it has to do with the > > vulnerabilities addressed in OpenSSL in the 30/05/2012 update. > > > > I'm assuming authors have bumped their ports' revision numbers to force > > a rebuild, using the patched openssl lib. > > There might be a little of that, but most of the recent activity is > accounted for by > > * Numerous ports moving to the new OPTIONSng framework > > * Hundreds of PORTREVISION bumps after an update to graphics/png > > * Removal of old koffice ports and the import of the Calligra office > suite to replace it. > > Cheers, > > Matthew My system is FreeBSD 9.0 Release and the lst time I use Clang. It works very good but the lst problem was with Calligra which didn't built. As I red in /usr/ports/UPDATING I ran portmaster -r png- and there are so many ports which should be rebuild. My question is: Is it better (safer) to use gcc or try clang? Or is it better to not update png? Thanks in advance. Mitja -------- http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa
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