Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 22:28:16 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Dimitry Andric" <dim@xs4all.nl> Cc: "SolarFlux" <xulfralos@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD Stable Mailing List" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NS 4.76 instead of 4.77 in 4.3-RELEASE? (GRRR) Message-ID: <200105100428.f4A4SG801532@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <200105092144390341.0156740D@tensor.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 09 May 2001 21:44:39 +0200 "Dimitry Andric" wrote:
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| On 2001-05-08 at 09:57 SolarFlux wrote:
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| >Any more advice? I just want a working browser!
|
| Edit /usr/ports/www/netscape4-communicator/Makefile and comment out
| (or delete) the following lines:
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| .if (${PORTVERSION} == "4.76")
| BROKEN= "Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 instead"
| .endif
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| Then you can simply build all other Netscape ports (which depend on
| this one). If you cvsup these changes will be thrown out of course,
| so you might want to save a copy of Makefile.
|
| Also, don't forget to complain loudly to Netscape/AOL/TimeWarner that
| a FreeBSD build of 4.77 is needed! :)
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Or install a recent port of Mozilla. It's not perfect yet but it is
stable enough for my daily use.
Good Luck
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Chris Fedde
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