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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:36:52 +0100
From:      Armin Pirkovitsch <a.pirko@inode.at>
To:        "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
Cc:        Yousef Adnan Raffah <yraffah@savola.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: win32 codecs not fixed?
Message-ID:  <4559F0A4.6080909@inode.at>
In-Reply-To: <200611141630.kAEGUigU056425@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
References:  <200611141630.kAEGUigU056425@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>

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Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
>> Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote:
>>> I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security
>>> issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it
>>> is not.
>>> What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the
>>> package/port stay restricted until the developer/port owner fix the
>>> security issue or does something else happens?
>> Run portaudit -F to fetch the most current database. The Issue has been
>> removed some time ago by adding the option to not install quicktime (see
>> http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/win32-codecs )
>>
> 	Probably needs to remove /var/db/ports/win32-codecs/options and
> then reconfigure it w/o Quicktime. Then it won't give the error anymore.
> 
> 	Is there a better way to have a port "forget" its previous
> options?

"make config" in the ports' directory (eg multimedia/win32-codecs) will
show you the configuration menu (if available)

-- 
Armin Pirkovitsch
a.pirko@inode.at



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