On 5/30/26 06:15, void wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:15:42AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > >> Note: the above are general comments that suggest the result may not be >> surprising. I did not analyze the specifics for the timing related to >> db5 and pcre . > > pcre was EoL'd on 2021-06-21 going by > https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt > and marked deprecated on 29 Feb 2024 in > https://www.freshports.org/devel/pcre/ > > db5, according to https://www.freshports.org/databases/db5/ > > Deprecated: EOLd, potential security issues, maybe use db18 instead > This port expired on: 2022-06-30
The builders do not change what they build until after the ports are updated, for sure . . . That FreeBSD never disabled or deleted those ports tells me that folks were not willing/able to deal with the related handling (updating or disabling/deleting) of some or all of: (Note: these might not include the full transitive closure of what all ends up dependent via what is listed.) # pkg rquery -r FreeBSD-ports "%ro" devel/pcre | sort -u audio/libmp3splt audio/vimpc audio/zrythm benchmarks/octave-forge-benchmark biology/ncbi-cxx-toolkit databases/dbtool databases/sqlite-ext-pcre deskutils/hs-arbtt deskutils/xneur devel/aifad devel/bitkeeper devel/coccinelle devel/cppcheck devel/libast devel/libklel devel/libr3 devel/libslang2 devel/ocaml-pcre devel/regexx devel/shedskin devel/swig40 devel/tup dns/dnshistory editors/mp editors/ted emulators/open-simh emulators/xcpc games/ezquake games/ivan games/ldmud games/mvdsv graphics/blender4 graphics/gource graphics/opencollada lang/crystal lang/nim mail/cyrus-imapd25 mail/cyrus-imapd30 mail/cyrus-imapd32 mail/cyrus-imapd34 mail/cyrus-imapd36 mail/cyrus-imapd38 mail/rmilter mail/sentinel math/cadabra2 math/octave math/octave-forge-actuarial math/octave-forge-apa math/octave-forge-audio math/octave-forge-automatic-differentiation math/octave-forge-bim math/octave-forge-bioinfo math/octave-forge-biosig math/octave-forge-bsltl math/octave-forge-cfitsio math/octave-forge-cgi math/octave-forge-civil-engineering math/octave-forge-coder math/octave-forge-communications math/octave-forge-control math/octave-forge-csg-dataset math/octave-forge-csg-toolkit math/octave-forge-dataframe math/octave-forge-datatypes math/octave-forge-dicom math/octave-forge-divand math/octave-forge-doctest math/octave-forge-fda math/octave-forge-femoctave math/octave-forge-fenv math/octave-forge-fileio math/octave-forge-financial math/octave-forge-fl-core math/octave-forge-fpl math/octave-forge-fuzzy-logic-toolkit math/octave-forge-fxp math/octave-forge-ga math/octave-forge-general math/octave-forge-generate_html math/octave-forge-geographiclib math/octave-forge-geometry math/octave-forge-gsl math/octave-forge-hdf5oct math/octave-forge-ident math/octave-forge-image math/octave-forge-instrument-control math/octave-forge-integration math/octave-forge-internal-fluid-flow math/octave-forge-interval math/octave-forge-io math/octave-forge-joystick math/octave-forge-linear-algebra math/octave-forge-llms math/octave-forge-lssa math/octave-forge-ltfat math/octave-forge-mapping math/octave-forge-matgeom math/octave-forge-mboct-fem-pkg math/octave-forge-mboct-mbdyn-pkg math/octave-forge-mboct-numerical-pkg math/octave-forge-mboct-octave-pkg math/octave-forge-mccabe-thiele math/octave-forge-miscellaneous math/octave-forge-missing-functions math/octave-forge-mqtt math/octave-forge-msh math/octave-forge-multicore math/octave-forge-mvn math/octave-forge-mysql math/octave-forge-nan math/octave-forge-ncarray math/octave-forge-netcdf math/octave-forge-nurbs math/octave-forge-oct2mat math/octave-forge-octave-pool math/octave-forge-octave_boost math/octave-forge-octave_ffmpeg_free math/octave-forge-octave_mermaid_js math/octave-forge-octave_php_wrapper math/octave-forge-octave_tar math/octave-forge-octave_zstd math/octave-forge-octclip math/octave-forge-octproj math/octave-forge-odbc math/octave-forge-odebvp math/octave-forge-optics math/octave-forge-optim math/octave-forge-optiminterp math/octave-forge-outliers math/octave-forge-parallel math/octave-forge-pde1dm math/octave-forge-pkg-octave-doc math/octave-forge-ponchon-savarit math/octave-forge-prompt math/octave-forge-psychrometrics math/octave-forge-pythonic math/octave-forge-quaternion math/octave-forge-queueing math/octave-forge-rf math/octave-forge-rtree math/octave-forge-secs1d math/octave-forge-secs2d math/octave-forge-secs3d math/octave-forge-signal math/octave-forge-simp math/octave-forge-sockets math/octave-forge-sole math/octave-forge-sparsersb math/octave-forge-special-matrix math/octave-forge-splines math/octave-forge-sqlite math/octave-forge-statistics math/octave-forge-statistics-resampling math/octave-forge-stk math/octave-forge-strings math/octave-forge-struct math/octave-forge-symbolic math/octave-forge-tablicious math/octave-forge-tcl-octave math/octave-forge-timer math/octave-forge-tsa math/octave-forge-velas math/octave-forge-video math/octave-forge-websockets math/octave-forge-zenity math/octave-forge-zeromq math/scilab misc/wmweather+ net-mgmt/aircrack-ng net-mgmt/grepip net-mgmt/kismet net-mgmt/pads net-mgmt/xymon-server net-mgmt/yaf net/freeswitch net/haproxy24 net/honeyd net/libyang net/megacmd net/pacemaker2 net/pecl-oauth2 net/tinyfugue science/paraview science/zotero security/bsmtrace3 security/ftimes security/hydra security/libprelude security/libpreludedb security/pev security/snort sysutils/ccze sysutils/cfengine sysutils/cfengine-devel sysutils/cfengine-lts sysutils/cfengine324 sysutils/cfengine325 sysutils/cfengine326 sysutils/cfengine327 sysutils/ftwin sysutils/ganglia-monitor-core sysutils/gsmartcontrol sysutils/hardlink sysutils/metalog sysutils/rdup sysutils/watchman textproc/cgrep textproc/modlogan textproc/py-pyscss textproc/the_silver_searcher www/angie-module-lua www/c-icap www/cas www/e2guardian www/hypermail www/kannel www/kannel-sqlbox www/kf5-kjs www/mod_auth_cas www/nginx-full www/openresty www/rejik www/sarg www/trafficserver x11-wm/compton # pkg rquery -r FreeBSD-ports "%ro" databases/db18 | sort -u comms/xastir devel/rsvndump editors/nvi2 mail/vacation net-p2p/litecoin net-p2p/litecoin-daemon net-p2p/litecoin-utils net/netatalk4 security/pks www/crawl For reference: The context for the above is: main amd64, aarch64 might be somewhat different, for example. -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
