Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:17:48 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kalin mintchev <kalin@el.net>, Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: firefox 1.5 port Message-ID: <200512211117.49785.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512211042.51445.kstewart@owt.com> 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>
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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
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