On 2004.11.18 12:27:38 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > >I tried to install a port which had a conflict (ImageMagick) > >but I didn't feel the vulnerability was significant enough to > >warrant waiting for a new port to be created. I looked in > >the ports man page for an override environment variable, > >but "vulnerability check" isn't even mentioned there. > >Could this please get stuck into the manpages?
First, the knob you are looking for is DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES, which is not as nice at it sounds, since it just disables the check ;-). > I'm cc-ing to doc@ ... we'll see if anyone wants to comment. > [ Umm, yeah ... they're great guys, but busy. We'll see....] Good call, it's much more likely we will notice something when doc@ gets poked :-). > You might also check with ports@ ... or just file a PR and > see what comes of it. > > It'l also quite possible that spending some time in the ports@ > list archives might turn up some of the info your're looking > for.... > > Also, what manpage would you *expect* to see this information > in? You mention ports(7), but someone already thinks "this > manpage is too long" ;-) To start with the last part, see rc.conf(5) and you will see a long manual page :-). I think this belongs in ports(7). Anyway, I actually added info about the DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES knob to my local WIP tree a few weeks ago, I just haven't gotten around to cleaning it up and committing it. I will bump it a bit up on my TODO list. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team
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