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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:47:58 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        ports list <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port??
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On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> 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 <bob@immure.com> 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 upgrad=
e
> > > 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=3D1269807
> > ???
> >
> > --
> > 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.
>
> =E2=80=8B52ESR was just released.  Give the ports maintainer time to get =
it into
the tree.  :)  (Note, I don't have Firefox on FreeBSD at the moment so just
going by what's released online, not what's available in the ports tree.)=
=E2=80=8B


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Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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