Sujet : Re: pkg/ports, pkg audit, and libxml2
De : wbe (at) *nospam* UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid (Winston)
Groupes : comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.miscDate : 17. Jun 2025, 00:47:31
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Christian Weisgerber <
naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote regarding libxml2:
Yes, that is unusually long and... *checks repository*... the port
still hasn't been updated.
...
(OpenBSD went from 2.13.x to 2.14.x in April
and had to deal with some breakage.)
to which
groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) replied:
Looks like there's Porters activity fixing breakage and deprecating
ports that are dependent on the legacy API but no longerm maintained
by upstream:
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=Open&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=New&bug_status=In%20Progress&field0-0-0=product&field0-0-1=component&field0-0-2=alias&field0-0-3=short_desc&field0-0-4=status_whiteboard&no_redirect=1&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&type0-0-1=substring&type0-0-2=substring&type0-0-3=substring&type0-0-4=substring&value0-0-0=libxml2&value0-0-1=libxml2&value0-0-2=libxml2&value0-0-3=libxml2&value0-0-4=libxml2>
14 matching bugs found. Oh, joy: they didn't just fix the bugs,
they broke stuff, too. :-/
Well, that explains why 2.14.2 hasn't appeared in the pkg repository
yet. Thanks!
-WBE