From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 8 17:49:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7BB37B4D8; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orwell.phoenix.volant.org (64-144-229-193.client.dsl.net [64.144.229.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D5843E75; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org ([192.168.0.13]) by orwell.phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17oCjT-000NtV-00; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:48:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:48:50 -0700 From: PM Lashley To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CONCLUSION] What to do about Mozilla Message-ID: <355905408.1031532530@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <1031520780.66333.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1031382538.46865.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3703892704.1031440015@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <1031465323.644.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <4150422704.1031478579@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <1031511512.60099.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <191405408.1031517571@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <1031520780.66333.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86 Demo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========2314033202==========" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==========2314033202========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Sunday, September 08, 2002 05:33:00 PM -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke=20 wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 16:39, Pat Lashley wrote: >> ... >> I meant the 1.0 versions vs the 1.1 versions. I have all three ports >> (mozilla, -headers, and -embedded) installed. I had updated them to >> the 1.1 versions when that change was committed. When you posted that >> you were backing that out, I avoided further updates until the dust had >> settled a bit and the -devel versions were available. Then I added >> '-devel' to the origins of the installed ports. Even then, I did not >> try to directly update the mozilla ports; they were caught in a >> -recursive on the XFree86 ports. >> >> The unexpected downgrade was probably caused by whatever went silently >> wrong with the index updates after the cvsup. (There is a small but >> non-zero probability that I failed to run the 'portsdb --updateindex >> --update') > > This problem should be fixed now. That is, mozilla-*-devel should point > to the correct master dir (i.e. mozilla-devel), and updates for them > should work as expected. Yes, everything appears to be OK now. >> ... >> >> Am I correct in believing that the mozilla and mozilla-headers installs >> should be kept in sync; but need not match mozilla-embedded ? (E.g., >> Install mozilla-1.1, mozilla-headers-1.1, mozilla-embedded-1.0; but not >> mozilla-1.1, mozilla-headers-1.0, mozilla-embedded-1.0.) > > Your headers should match the API you care about. If you want to build > dependent applications on mozilla-1.1, you will need > mozilla-headers-devel. If you want those dependent apps to use the > embedded mozilla-1.1 API, then also have mozilla-embedded-devel > installed. If, however, you want to use mozilla-1.1 as your primary > browser, but have mozilla-embedded-1.0 around for Galeon, you will want > mozilla-embedded and mozilla-headers. > > If all you want to do is have a browser, then you don't need -headers at > all. Actually, I want several browsers - I try to keep a variety around for comparison purposes. (And sometimes I want to use a browser with completely different history, bookmarks, stored cookies, and preferences settings.) I've generally preferred Galeon for general browsing; but most of the features I liked are now in Mozilla. -Pat --==========2314033202========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9e+/yncYNbLD8wuMRAiqjAKCd3SHEZxbsQpipq9oORdKofoLhswCfX9gO y4Les3RcWaZysk9KQr52sG4= =Ahfb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========2314033202==========-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message