Subject: Re: suse_x11 pkg fails due to vulnerability
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/09/2005 15:54:15
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>> 
>>> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I ran into that same issue.  I deleted all the pieces, went to 
>>>> meta-pkgs/suse9, did a 'make install', and didn't worry about it after 
>>>> that....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Setting SUSE_PREFER=9.1 in mk.conf seems to work.
>>> 
>>> (Google found 
>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2004/11/05/0025.html).
>> 
>> 
>>     Can we just go ahead and do this for NetBSD 2.0 and later?
>
> Or at least document it somewhere.. perhaps in the DESCR file of at least 
> emulators/suse_linux.  Cc: to tech-pkg.

 	Updated the default to 9.1 on NetBSD 2 and later.

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