From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 00:02:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2AE106566B for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:02:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from miwi@bsdcrew.de) Received: from bsdcrew.de (duro.unixfreunde.de [85.214.90.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723C48FC1A for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:02:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from miwi@bsdcrew.de) Received: by bsdcrew.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5AA764ACD2; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:02:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:02:32 +0100 From: Martin Wilke To: Naram Qashat Message-ID: <20090215000231.GA4956@bsdcrew.de> References: <499735E6.7050909@gmail.com> <4997389C.3030904@cyberbotx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <4997389C.3030904@cyberbotx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, t-u-t Subject: Re: gecko & firefox marked forbidden X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:02:35 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:33:16PM -0500, Naram Qashat wrote: > t-u-t wrote: > > just a note, > > firefox2 has been marked forbidden, and it stopped me twice while=20 > > building gnome2-lite today when pulled for gecko depends by www/epiphan= y=20 > > and x11/yelp. > >=20 > > on my own system i fixed the Makefiles of these two to use xulrunner,= =20 > > (which was there anyway - just removed firefox), but i don't know what= =20 > > other effects there are on other ports etc. > >=20 > > n.b. i don't need ff2, just noting >=20 > I'll point out that the same issue occured for me with multimedia/vlc. I= t was=20 > updated to have xulrunner after firefox in USE_GECKO, but even defining= =20 > WITH_GECKO=3Dxulrunner it still tried to install firefox2. I don't know = what the=20 > bug is, but there is one. Hi, Firefox2 is no longer supported by the Mozilla Foundation. We marked this port BROKEN as part of the last Security update for Firefox3 [1]. Firefox2 is also affected with the same Isusses as in Firefox3. That's the reason. [1] See also: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-01.html Impact: Crit= ical http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-03.html Impact: High http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-04.html Impact: Mode= rate http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-05.html Impact: Low http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/8b491182-f842-11dd-94d9-0030843d3802.html Maybe should someone take a look to get some backport patches? - - Martin >=20 > Naram Qashat > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 - --=20 +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | PGP : 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | | ICQ : 169139903 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmXW5cACgkQdLJIhLHm/Ole1wCeNweWD8OrrM68bGbtLg1nTO7q c2AAoNXbjePEqaTlwZholUKhfHGCA3Ze =3DRiPY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----