From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 27 19:21: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dignus.com (sdsl-64-32-254-102.dsl.iad.megapath.net [64.32.254.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962AB37B41C; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3S2GtA23939; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:16:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g3S2IWo89770; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:18:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:18:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200204280218.g3S2IWo89770@lakes.dignus.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200204280157.g3S1vRQ86884@lakes.dignus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Rivers wrote: > > Ah - I know why the netscape port is so simple... it's forbidden: > > ===> netscape-communicator-4.76 is forbidden: Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 or later instead. (These ports are available only for linux version and alpha arch. Looks Netscape has stopped to release new FreeBSD native binary). > > > So... it seems you can't use the FreeBSD-native Netscape with XF86 4.2 > > Let me add to this discussion the fact that (barring the security hole > mentioned) it worked fine with XF86 4.1. > Ok - after commenting out the FORBIDDEN definition, I built the port... And - wonder of wonders! It works great! I tried running the other Netscape install (the one I did "by hand".) It did not run at all (same core dump.) I might spend some time later figuring out what the port does that the free-standing install doesn't do... and, why that worked before and doesn't work with XF86.4.2 - but, the "standard" answer should be: "Use the ports, Luke" Thanks to everyone for their help on this! - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message