Opened 11 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#42156 closed defect (wontfix)

libnasl: outdated and broken

Reported by: mojca (Mojca Miklavec) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), jul_bsd@…, cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: libnasl

Description

When checking the ticket #39383, it turns out that apart from #38114, libnasl is broken as well.

I applied two naive patches (see attachments), but the software seems soooo awfully outdated. And given that there exists the openvas-libnasl port and that nobody reported a broken port, I strongly suspect that it could make a lot more sense to remove these nessus ports unless they are still needed (but they aren't usable anyway).

I don't think that my libtool patch works properly anyway since even after applying it, the build fails with

/bin/sh /path/to/work/libnasl/libtool --silent --mode=compile /usr/bin/clang -pipe -pipe -Os -arch x86_64  `sh ./cflags`  -lrpcsvc  `/opt/local/bin/nessus-config --libs` -o libnasl.la nasl_packet_forgery.lo nasl_socket.lo nasl_crypto.lo nasl_crypto2.lo nasl_http.lo nasl_host.lo nasl_text_utils.lo nasl_nessusd_glue.lo nasl_misc_funcs.lo nasl_cmd_exec.lo capture_packet.lo nasl_grammar.tab.lo nasl_tree.lo nasl_var.lo exec.lo lint.lo nasl_lex_ctxt.lo nasl_func.lo nasl_init.lo strutils.lo regex.lo lfind.lo preparse.lo nasl_server.lo nasl_debug.lo -rpath /opt/local/lib \
	-version-info 4:9:2
libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `libnasl.la'

What do you think about removing these ports?

Attachments (3)

libnasl.Portfile.diff (1.3 KB) - added by mojca (Mojca Miklavec) 11 years ago.
patch-md2.diff (905 bytes) - added by mojca (Mojca Miklavec) 11 years ago.
patch-nasl-Makefile.diff (270 bytes) - added by mojca (Mojca Miklavec) 11 years ago.

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Change History (11)

Changed 11 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Attachment: libnasl.Portfile.diff added

Changed 11 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Attachment: patch-md2.diff added

Changed 11 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Attachment: patch-nasl-Makefile.diff added

comment:1 in reply to:  description Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to mojca@…:

And given that there exists the openvas-libnasl port and that nobody reported a broken port, I strongly suspect that it could make a lot more sense to remove these nessus ports unless they are still needed (but they aren't usable anyway).

Regarding this point, I'm not sure what the relationship is between the libnasl and openvas-libnasl ports, but neither depends on the other, so what you do with libnasl doesn't affect openvas-libnasl. Also, all of openvas in MacPorts is severely outdated. Newer versions did not build and I could not get any help about that from the developers. See #25338. In the (as of 3.5 years ago) "new" version, openvas-libnasl no longer exists. See #25340.

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added

Cc Me!

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by jul_bsd@…

I agree. That's probably a good case to used replaced_by. There is no more official site (nessus/libnasl switched to closed source in 2005/2006)

Freebsd and openbsd seem to maintained the port for now

as openvas is a opensource fork of nessus and maintained, I think it's really advisable to switch in replaced_by but need to update openvas* ports.

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by jul_bsd@…

Cc: jul_bsd@… added

Cc Me!

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Once again: any objections to deleting the port nessus-core and libnasl? It's unlikely that anyone has those ports installed given that they are broken and that nobody opened any tickets to report the problem.

comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Sounds reasonable to me. No objections here.

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Nessus ports removed in r120502. If anyone needs these ports, they can be added again as long as build problems get fixed.

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