Category: FreeBSD ports collection
REDZONE: Buffer overflow detected
I updated my laptop running FreeBSD current yesterday. For the first time I saw kernel messages about redzone violations.
Read More → REDZONE: Buffer overflow detectedAdopting Curl 7.88.1 ahead of the official branch of the FreeBSD ports collection
pkg audit has flagged Curl 7.87.0_1 as vulnerable for a week or so.
Read More → Adopting Curl 7.88.1 ahead of the official branch of the FreeBSD ports collectionUpgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0
Upgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0 was mostly uneventful.
Read More → Upgrading MySQL from 5.7 to 8.0Preparing to upgrade MySQL
You can’t configure nor download a newer version of the MySQL client using the FreeBSD ports collection while an older version is installed. It’s outrageous.
Read More → Preparing to upgrade MySQLUpgrading PostgreSQL and PHP
One thing has annoyed me for years, and that is the ports tree refusing me to configure and download newer versions of PHP and PostgreSQL while an older one is installed.
Read More → Upgrading PostgreSQL and PHPmath/py-kiwisolver going from 1.3.2,1 to 1.4.3
Commit 94af43935c4e2709577cb4e4723daf9d7cb91494 removed PORTEPOCH for math/py-kiwisolver. The previous version number, 1.3.2,1, is considered higher than the current one, 1.4.3. py38-kiwisolver-1.3.2,1 > succeeds index (index has 1.4.3) Installation by force is the only way forward.
Read More → math/py-kiwisolver going from 1.3.2,1 to 1.4.3ports-mgmt/pkg vs security/base-audit
ports-mgmt/pkg 1.18.1 vs security/base-audit 0.5 doesn’t seem to agree on who should be responsible for /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit. I believe the latter port should take charge, but maybe I’m wrong. ===> Installing existing package /packages/All/base-audit-0.5.pkg Installing base-audit-0.5… pkg-static: base-audit-0.5 conflicts with pkg-1.18.1 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit Failed to install the following 1 […]
Read More → ports-mgmt/pkg vs security/base-auditUnknown flavor ‘py39’, possible flavors: py38
I use Synth to build my own packages. On a test system running stable/13, Synth had issues with textproc/py-sphinxcontrib-applehelp@py39.
Read More → Unknown flavor ‘py39’, possible flavors: py38sysutils/tmux built by Synth on CURRENT
For some unexplained reasons sysutils/tmux fails to be built by Synth on CURRENT when the UTF8PROC option is set. The configure script simply fails to locate utf8proc.h.
Read More → sysutils/tmux built by Synth on CURRENTMigrating to Python 3.8
Edit /etc/make.conf and /usr/local/etc/synth/LiveSystem-make.conf, changing DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.8, and DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=3.7 to DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python3=python3.8.
Read More → Migrating to Python 3.8