Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:44:32 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reporting problems with Firefox (?) Message-ID: <61480.1182415472@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:45:38 -0400. <1182408338.68646.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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In message <1182408338.68646.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>, you wrote: >Debugging is the only way to go as I cannot reproduce this problem ,and >you are the only one complaining of it. That said, you might try >www/firefox (which is Firefox 2.0). Begging yourt pardon, but that does not seem to be the case, actually. In the /usr/ports tree that was distributed with 6.2-RELEASE (which is what I am runing, and what I just installed) the Makefile within the www/firefox directory makes it abundantly clear that doing a "make" in that directory will only get me another (probably equally broken) copy of Firefox 1.5.0.8. So what should I do? Download a new /usr/ports tree and then go into www/firefox and do a build? >> I don't remember ever installing anything from the /usr/ports tree for th= >is. >>=20 >> I believe that I just pulled the pre-compiled package "firefox-1.5.0.8,1" >> off of the install CDs. Anyway, in /var/db/pkg I do see an entrit called >> firefox-1.5.0.8,1. > >Try using ports instead of packages. See above. The /usr/ports tree that was distributed with 6.2-RELEASE contains the same versions of stuff as are in the pre-compiled packages. >>=20 >> OK, so let's say that I want to try the linux-firefox version. I must >> ask this: Do I first need to replace all of the X11 related stuff, i.e. >> "upgrade" from X.org 6.9.0 to X.org 7.2 first? > >You definitely should upgrade all your ports before reporting problems. Yeabut is X11 considered part of "ports"? That's what I am asking, and what I would like somebody to help me to understand. (Please forgive my abundant ignorance and please do enlighten me.) I thought that X11 was _special_ and that it was more of an intergral part of the OS. No? Just another "port"? I'm paranoid also that the minute I go and try to change out all of X11, that I'll be breaking a whole hell of a lot of other stuff that may already be installed and that may be dependent on the presence of X.org 6.9.0 (which is what one guy I saw during my googling was ranting about, I think, i.e. breakage of many dependencies when "upgrading" to a new release of X). Maybe all I really need is some gentle reassurance from somebody who has already been there and done that. Tell me that all hell _won't_ break loose when/if I go and "upgrade" to X.org 7.2 (and then upgrade to Firefox 2.0) and I'll be a happy camper. >That is step one in the previous URL I sent you. Well, that's just like me... always getting hung on Step Number #1. :-) Thanks for your help. Regards, rfg P.S. You didn't answer my question about the FreeBSD gnome mailing list. Is there one? Is <gnome@freebsd.org> its posting address?
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