Completely Removing a package

[Deleted member 30996]

One of the last things I figured out how to do, and took me the longest to figure out, was how to set /etc/aliases so I could get my daily mail. And I had been using FreeBSD quite a while by then.

 

[sidney]

Now there's a vulnerability in security/nettle found when building sysutils/gkrellm2.

ports-mgmt/portmaster balked at the idea of installing a vulnerable port on the W520 I'm building FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p4 on. It's one of my have-to-have-it 3rd party programs, too. Sounds serious though:

nettle-3.6 is vulnerable:
  nettle 3.7.2 -- fix serious ECDSA signature verify bug

I've got one building that can't continue and this one is vulnerable, as are 7 others. What will I do? What will I do... What would you do?

I continued the build and will worry about the rest later when the port is updated:

cd /usr/ports/security/nettle
make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes install clean
cd /
portmaster sysutils/gkrellm2


Easy to figure out. If you've done it before, can see the full error to know what needs done and know what key allows you to scroll up to see it all. Because you couldn't.

I could easiest by having it start the build over and make Portmaster do what I wanted it to so I could see what needed done to get started again. It's finished building and time to move on with the build.

That's just the way it goes sometime. But that's my take on it, too. And part of the learning process you only get from experience.

I just tried doing this very thing after a failed attempt at installing filezilla using portmaster. A nettle issue as well. Anyway, each subsequent install attempt keeps on failing. I use the command in portmasterfail.txt ! Any ideas? TIA

 

[Deleted member 30996]

The port security/nettle was fixed sometime yesterday afternoon here, probably after you tried it. I mailed the Maintainer and let him know about it.

root@bakemono:/ # portsnap fetch update
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from ipv4.aws.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Ports tree hasn't changed since last snapshot.
No updates needed.
Ports tree is already up to date.
root@bakemono:/ # pkg audit -F
vulnxml file up-to-date
0 problem(s) in 0 installed package(s) found.
root@bakemono:/ #