Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:01:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, rob <europax@home.com>, Johannes Zwart <johannes@jak.nl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? Message-ID: <14769.30887.485520.931191@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021358090.22061-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> References: <20000902145603.A28852@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021358090.22061-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
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John Galt writes: > So why is it still forbidden in a fresh download? I have my own reasons > for downloading what I did, but until the un-forbid fix propagates, I > still stand by my statement: it was once deprecated, and there's still a > ports tree you can download today wherein you can't install lynx, so it is > still at least in part deprecated. Just because something is available for download doesn't mean that it's *fresh*. If they start updating the distribution labeled "4.0-RELEASE", where should they stop? When it's 4.1? Nah, 4.0-RELEASE is a fixed thing, and won't ever change. Lynx has been fixed, and ports that build from the fixed version are used with current FreeBSD 4 (and 3, for that matter). In un-forbidding the old port and building it, you are building a version with all the security holes, because it's building from sources that had those problems. If you need to run 4.0, do so. However, you can update the ports tree independent of the OS, and it should work. Try updating your *ports* tree, and building one of the lynx ports you get from that. Personally, I prefer w3m. That it supports "other browsers" makes it usable as the primary browser for almost anything. <mike > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Sep 02), John Galt said: > > > Bullmerde! 4.0 pulled a week ago from ftp install, on a brand new > > > machine. cd /usr/ports/lynx;make install I get a error stating that > > > lynx has a few security holes in it. It's deprecated. > > > > Why in the world are you installing 4.0 instead of 4.1? 4.0 was > > released in March, and back then, lynx _was_ insecure, so the ports > > tree that came with 4.0 had it marked as insecure. The bugs have long > > since been fixed, and if you would update your ports tree, either with > > cvsup or by going to http://www.freebsd.org/ports, you would notice > > that it's no longer marked FORBIDDEN. > > > > > > -- > When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to > tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but > only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. > > Who is John galt? Galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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