From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Mar 8 21:13:40 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C641ED03E7B for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 21:13:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from maul.immure.com (108-84-10-9.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net [108.84.10.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C0A15FF for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 21:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com ([10.1.132.9]) by maul.immure.com with esmtp (Exim 4.88 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1clitt-000KDq-RA; Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:13:39 -0600 Received: from rancor.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v28LDbhV018800; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:13:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.14.9/Submit) id v28LDbgl018799; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:13:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:13:37 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Freddie Cash , ports list Subject: Re: Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port?? Message-ID: <20170308211337.GJ22199@rancor.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20170308160420.GG22199@rancor.immure.com> <20170308195705.GI22199@rancor.immure.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:13:40 -0000 On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:31:51PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > > > What is the best way to get synth to simply ignore certain ports when > > > > running > > > > the upgrade-system command with it? I would like for it to not upgrade > > > > firefox > > > > (don't want to lose my tab groups) so I'd rather that it not even > > consider > > > > updating firefox again, at least not till some form of tab groups are > > again > > > > supported. > > > > > > > > Note that I haven't tried ver 52 of firefox, but from what I've read it > > > > sounds > > > > like all plugins/addons other than flash are no longer supported. > > > > > > > > > > ???Switch to the ESR version, and all NPAPI plugins will be enabled and > > > supported until around May of next year. :) > > > > > > Firefox 52 disables everything except Flash. > > > Firefox 52ESR leaves everything enabled.??? > > > > > > ???https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807 > > > ??? > > > > > > -- > > > Freddie Cash > > > fjwcash@gmail.com > > > > Yeah, but isn't the ESR version relatively down-level WRT to version 51 > > that > > I'm currently using? The Makefile in www/firefox-esr has a verison of > > 45.8.0. > > > > Not anxious to go backwards on everything. > > > > -- > > Bob Willcox | If a program is useful, it will be changed. > > bob@immure.com | > > Austin, TX | > > > Color me confused. I am running Firefox 52.0 and currently have both Flash > and the Cisco H.264 plugins (according to about:plugins). So the H.264 must > not be NPAPI or there is another exception. Since the H.264 plugin is a > part of the Firefox distribution, I suspect it is a special case, a rather > important one on the same level as Flash. (Really more important.) > > Today (or, maybe yesterday) version 52.0 was declared the new ESR release, > replacing 45.8. Since I don't run ESR, I have not looked into the state of > the ESR port for FreeBSD. Hmm, the plugin/addon I use and would be lost without is for tab groups. Do they still work in 52? > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 -- Bob Willcox | If a program is useful, it will be changed. bob@immure.com | Austin, TX |