On 2016/02/17 22:30, Chris Bennett wrote: > Last version from author was 3.8.35 done at end of 2010. > Appears that many useful features are present, many other problems like > Kerberos need removal. > Author said that IPP would start at 4.x.x versions, which have never > been done. > Is using Artistic license. > > Has SSL support, which would need to be updated, by someone else. I'm a > USA citizen. > > Documentation is moderately OK, but poorly organized and has a lot of > sections which show some examples: "I haven't used but you can see what > you get out of it." > > Fixing all the problems and then trying to get IPP support going might > be a good answer to lpd problems. > > Chris Bennett >
cvs get -P -D 2013/03/17 ports/sysutils/LPRng *however*... 1) if you read the commit log to the ports Makefile, there have been a number of security problems over the time it was in ports. Have a look at upstream commits: have they done anything to improve things? Commit logs with mention of problems found by static analyzers/fuzzing tools/etc would be a good sign. 2) there have been no substantial changes to the port since 2003 or so. It is rarely a good idea to base things on such an old port, there have been many changes in ports infrastructure since then - it's usually better to start from a recent Makefile.template and work from there as a new port, possibly referencing the old one if you get stuck. But think carefully about 1) first though.
