From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 19:18:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743A216A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:18:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD41043D8B for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:17:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so225806nzo for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=d5BX41YpnIQoQS04eYPlg4CErEFrjmY00gSF0ZA7UnZvXNeZfjfjbdggUC4SeD5wBupR5P691xnX1qSF1a69on4ywOeoQWG2/n8ebtmKN5j/XcO7Eapgcz5iKXrrodUtOTrr+R2Bmgjvq/4GOzPq5YPKGmRVw/xxxC7vPH4tW78= Received: by 10.36.146.1 with SMTP id t1mr1029746nzd; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 36sm337345nza.2005.12.21.11.17.52; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:48 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <53917.24.90.33.115.1135177715.squirrel@mail.el.net> <61207.24.90.33.115.1135180880.squirrel@mail.el.net> <200512211042.51445.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200512211042.51445.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512211117.49785.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: kalin mintchev , Teo De Las Heras , Kent Stewart Subject: Re: firefox 1.5 port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:18:14 -0000 On Wednesday 21 December 2005 10:42, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:01 am, kalin mintchev wrote: > > > Have you tried going into the cairo directory in /usr/ports and > > > doing a make > > > deinstall and make reinstall? > > > > yes... i installed from source and passed that point now... > > i just think that the purpose of the port system is to avoid > > stitching it all together from srcs... specially a port as widely > > used and popular as firefox.. > > But that is why you use things like portupgrade or portmanage. You have > dependancies and sometimes, not all of the time, they have to be > updated before you build the main application. If you do the updating > out of sequence (a>b>c>d) such as update b before you update d, you may > have to go back and force the update because the flag to update is no > longer there. > > A "portupgrade -rR" won't fix what you have already broken. You have to > force it with -fr. That will take a long time and you probably can't > recover any other way because the package site only has > firefox-1.5_4,1. > > For example, nspr and cairo build just fine on my system. I cvsuped and > tried it on 6-stable. It sounds like you are in that position now. > > If there are a number of changes and it looks like an interface is > affected, I run "portupgrade -purR xxx". Michael will probably tell you > how to do it with portmanage. I think like portupgrade and use it. > > Kent > :) With portmanager he should do: portmanager www/firefox -f -Mike