Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:39:57 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan Kop <jonathan.kop@za.verizonbusiness.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT?? options in FreeBSD 6.x's /etc/make.conf. Message-ID: <20060309153615.P83317@wataru.so.cpt1.za.uu.net> In-Reply-To: <20060309132821.GA54871@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20060309142834.X83317@wataru.so.cpt1.za.uu.net> <20060309132821.GA54871@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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At 2:28pm today, Erik Trulsson wrote: ET> The misc/compat[345]x ports, are what you are supposed to use. The ET> libraries included in the misc/compat3x port does appear to have some ET> security problems that nobody has fixed, and the port is therefore ET> marked FORBIDDEN. (I don't think there are many (if any) FreeBSD ET> developers who still care about 3.x, so it seems unlikely that those ET> security problems will be fixed any time soon (if ever).) ET> ET> > So, the question: how do I get libc.so.3 on my FreeBSD 6.x system? ET> ET> misc/compat3x ET> If you are not worried about the scurity holes with that you should be ET> able to just comment out the FORBIDDEN line in the port's Makefile and ET> install the port. I'm in the unfortunate position of being worried about the security holes but also needing the compat3x libraries (for an old, closed-source binary), so I guess I don't really have much of a choice. Thanks, Erik. -Jonathan.
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