On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, April 11, 2008 16:03:24 +0200 Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm unbale to install nss_ldap from padl. I've error :
=> nss_ldap-257.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://www.padl.com/download/.
fetch: http://www.padl.com/download/nss_ldap-257.tar.gz: size mismatch:
expected 229242, actual 229299
Anyone, can tell me, how to install openldap client on Freebsd 7-Stable ?
I do not know why /usr/ports/net/nss_ldap/distinfo contains a different
file
size (and probably inappropriate checksums), but you can just edit
/usr/ports/net/nss_ldap/distinfo and put in what you find (start with size
only, later by using md5 and sha256 utilities in /sbin to calculate
checksums
after the file has been fetched /usr/ports/distfiles).
The answer to that is obvious. The size and checksums are different because
the *file* is different. That means that the file he's trying to download
hasn't been vetted by the maintainer to ensure that it's not compromised.
The way to solve this problem is (in the order you should do them)
1) Update your ports to see if the maintainer has corrected the problem
2) Download the source code and compare it with the md5sum of the vendor to
ensure that it's not compromised. If the checksum matches, go into the port
directory and run "make makesum" to update the distinfo file. (No need to
reinvent the wheel.)
3) Use DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES to foolishly install the software without
first verifying that it hasn't been compromised.
I'm thinking option one is probably best:
# make
=> nss_ldap-257.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://www.padl.com/download/.
nss_ldap-257.tar.gz 100% of 223 kB 36 kBps
===> Extracting for nss_ldap-1.257
=> MD5 Checksum OK for nss_ldap-257.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for nss_ldap-257.tar.gz.
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Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
1. I use FreeBSD for more than 10 years now and know that sometimes ports
are not updated as soon as I need them, especially if you need to fix
a security problem quickly. Thus sometimes I need to do what I wrote.
2. I mentioned the problem of security. You did not quote this part of
my mail in your reply and this is not correct!
Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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