Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:57:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org, rivers@dignus.com Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <200204280157.g3S1vRQ86884@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <200204280054.g3S0sVk86124@lakes.dignus.com>
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See below... > > > > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:05:19PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > Yes - this is the version of Netscape directly from Netscape's > > > ftp server... no port. > > > > Please try the port. If you're installing things on your system by > > hand then all bets are off and there's nothing we can hope to do. > > > > Kris > > > > Downloading the `ports' tarball now... > > But - I used the CVS interface at www.freebsd.org to look > at the netscape-communicated 4.76 port. There were no scripts > to run, and the makefile seems to simply install the > product just as the Netscape-provided shell script would... > > But - I'll run the port when it's installed and report back. > > - Dave Rivers - > Ah - I know why the netscape port is so simple... it's forbidden: ===> netscape-communicator-4.76 is forbidden: Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 or later instead. (These ports are available only for linux version and alpha arch. Looks Netscape has stopped to release new FreeBSD native binary). So... it seems you can't use the FreeBSD-native Netscape with XF86 4.2 Let me add to this discussion the fact that (barring the security hole mentioned) it worked fine with XF86 4.1. - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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