Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:45:10 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: DTD <doug@safeport.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox is pretty useless ... Message-ID: <20170711144510.GO96529@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1707050200150.11048@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1707050200150.11048@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 02:07:29AM -0400, DTD wrote:
> if you use xfce. By definition it is not a problem that:
>
> 1) install a new copy of FreeBSD 10.3
> 2) pkg install xorg
> 3) pkg install xfce
> 4) pkg install firefox
>
> installs a firefox package that does not run. The project seems to do a bit
> better than this on Windows, but they (I think) have to in that environment. The
> official answer to the above is:
>
> --- Comment #1 from Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> ---
> Partial upgrades i.e., mixing dependencies from different svn checkouts, dates
> of "pkg install" or locking dependencies, are not supported. firefox will
> refuse to build unless you upgrade sqlite3. Some version requirement are
> specified in the port's Makefile
>
> $ fgrep sqlite www/firefox/Makefile
> sqlite3>=3.17.0:databases/sqlite3 \
> ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3 \
>
> "pkg upgrade" may help you resolve this.
>
> The only problem with this 'solution' is that upgrading sqlite requires a
> cascading series of updates that breaks parts of xfce. Other than that no
> problem here. So if you use twm firefox is your browser.
>
> The next time I build a system I will try installing firefox first. I got here
> because I wanted to ungrade thunar (xfce's file manager). That upgrade broke
> the version of firefox that was running (47.somethine). Chasing and fixing that
> chain eventually required a reinstall. Happily (for me) chrome works.
Hmm, what firefox port are you building/running? I'm running version 54.0
(firefox-54.0.1_1,1) without any real issues (well, none at this point). I
don't install or run xfce, but use the ctwm window manager (ctwm-4.0.0,1).
Perhaps that's the difference.
I'm also running 10.3:
FreeBSD luke.immure.com 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #3 r320754: Thu Jul 6 15:13:13 CDT 2017 bob@luke.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUKE amd64
As an asside, I recommend running v 54 of firefox in any event. The new
thread support seems to have significantly improved its performance and
stability for me (at least).
>
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