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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:33:11 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, Michael Johnson <ahze@freebsd.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/firefox15 Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <op.tirp5lnn9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <45539C3B.8070807@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:23:07 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.or=
g>  =

wrote:

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> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:04:20 -0600, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.or=
g>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:54:18PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:29:52 -0600, Simon L. Nielsen  =

>>>> <simon@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >On 2006.11.09 19:17:41 +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>>> >>ahze        2006-11-09 19:17:41 UTC
>>>> >>
>>>> >>  FreeBSD ports repository
>>>> >>
>>>> >>  Modified files:
>>>> >>    www/firefox15        Makefile distinfo
>>>> >>  Log:
>>>> >>  - Update to 1.5.0.8
>>>> >>  - Mark DEPRECATED by Firefox 2.0
>>>> >
>>>> >We need to find some way to get this into 6.2... unfortunately sin=
ce
>>>> >6.2 contains firefox 1.5 as www/firefox I'm not really sure how to=
 do
>>>> >this.  I talked a bit to kris about this on IRC today, but the onl=
y
>>>> >way there really seem to be to do this (which don't involve nasty
>>>> >hacks) was to add firefox 1.5.0.8 as www/firefox temporarily and t=
hen
>>>> >re-adding 2.0 as www/firefox there...
>>>> >
>>>> >Anybody got any better ideas?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what 1.5.0.8 has, but if there has some serious securi=
ty
>>>> issue fix in 1.5.0.8 then it's ok with me. As for 2.0, I disagree f=
or  =

>>>> to
>>>> get it in 6.2. It's not ready and not have the same level of
>>>> stability as
>>>> in 1.5.x.
>>>
>>> Yep, the question is how to manage getting a 1.5 version of
>>> www/firefox into 6.2, since the port was already spammed by the 2.0
>>> update.
>>
>> Commit in the RELENG_6_2_0 of ports tree, then rebuild all ports depe=
nd
>> on firefox. Will that work?
>
> RELEASE_6_2_0 is a tag not a branch.  That's enough about branching th=
e
> ports tree.
>
>>
>> If it is not possible to commit in the RELENG_6_2_0, then do the
>> checkout RELENG_6_2_0 and tweak in www/firefox before start to rebuil=
d
>> all ports depend on firefox. I know that will working with MarcusCom
>> Tinderbox, but I don't know what about with your tinderbox.
>
> That will work for package building, but not for preserving the sancti=
ty
> of release.  We need to be able to checkout the ports that shipped wit=
h
> 6.2 well into the year 2038.

Good poing, never thought of that...

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe
>
> - --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
> FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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