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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2017 09:17:48 -0400
From:      Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A lot of pkg ask to install compat6x-amd64 on current
Message-ID:  <347fd6e9-e299-35b2-ada7-573cab3e06af@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.21.1501502400.38796.freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org>
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From: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <347fd6e9-e299-35b2-ada7-573cab3e06af@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: A lot of pkg ask to install compat6x-amd64 on current
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> On 29/07/2017 11:50, Artyom Mirgorodsky wrote:
>> Hi I see that a lot of pkg ask to install compat6x-amd64. But portmast=
er
>> doesn't require compat6x-amd64. I think this is a bag and possible has=

>> security problem as this package is very old
>=20
> How are you invoking pkg(8) that you see this requirement for compat6x,=

> and what are you seeing that pulls in the compat6x dependency?
>=20
> By my count there are 4 ports that depend directly on misc/compat6x.
> This does not count any ports that depend on these indirectly:
>=20
> % grep -R misc/compat6x *
> devel/cscout/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS+=3D	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> devel/eiffelstudio/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS=3D	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> lang/cmucl/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS=3D	libc.so.6:misc/compat6x
> misc/compat6x/pkg-descr:LIB_DEPENDS+=3D	c.6:misc/compat6x
> misc/compat6x/Makefile:# $FreeBSD: head/misc/compat6x/Makefile 444437
> 2017-06-27 00:05:15Z linimon $
> security/retranslator/Makefile:LIB_DEPENDS+=3D	libm.so:misc/compat6x
>=20
> Now, I wouldn't characterize four ports as "a lot", and I certainly
> haven't see any ports myself that pull in compat6x on anything I've bee=
n
> managing recently.
>=20
> Anything still requiring compat6x is probably pretty elderly and
> unmaintained, but that's a question for ports@.
>=20
> 	Cheers,
>=20
> 	Matthew
>=20

I can corroborate: I also have a system where pkg installs
compat6x-amd64 on every update and then "pkg autoremove" removes it.

There is even a bug open for it:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D220755

- Nikolai


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