Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:50 +0200 From: Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org> To: Olaf Seibert <O.Seibert@cs.ru.nl> Cc: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Insufficient dependencies on www/firefox Message-ID: <4BD6C586.2080806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100427101755.GC883@twoquid.cs.ru.nl> References: <20100427101755.GC883@twoquid.cs.ru.nl>
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Hi, Olaf Seibert wrote: > I am trying to upgrade Firefox on a FreeBSD 6 system from Firefox 3.0.x > to the current 3.6.x version. > > First there is no way that I have found for portupgrade/portinstall/make > to build the new version before deinstalling the old one, because it is > claimed that the new one has files in common with the old one. Of course > it has, it is an upgrade, just the package names differ. (Portupgrade > wants to upgrade to a newer 3.0.x version, which I don't want) Recent version of portmaster should handle this situation correctly: # portmaster -o www/firefox www/firefox3 > Next, the dependencies are not correctly recorded. So far, I have run > into nspr and cairo, of which I have apparently old versions. Configure > rejects them, but the minimal version numbers should of course have been > recorded in the port's Makefile. There may be more that I run into > later; every iteration takes a while. If you use portmaster this dependencies should be updated automatically. Beat
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