Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:18:32 -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: <200204280218.g3S2IWo89770@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <200204280157.g3S1vRQ86884@lakes.dignus.com>
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Dave Rivers wrote: > > 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. > Ok - after commenting out the FORBIDDEN definition, I built the port... And - wonder of wonders! It works great! I tried running the other Netscape install (the one I did "by hand".) It did not run at all (same core dump.) I might spend some time later figuring out what the port does that the free-standing install doesn't do... and, why that worked before and doesn't work with XF86.4.2 - but, the "standard" answer should be: "Use the ports, Luke" Thanks to everyone for their help on this! - 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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