From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 12 16:34:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rr.iij4u.or.jp (h082.p060.iij4u.or.jp [210.130.60.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A43A1504D for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sada@rr.iij4u.or.jp) Received: (qmail 1952 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Jul 1999 08:31:30 +0900 Date: 13 Jul 1999 08:31:30 +0900 Message-ID: <19990712233130.1951.sada@rr.iij4u.or.jp> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: star@iwl.net, sada@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape 4.6.1. ports In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:42:39 JST". <199907121842.NAA05168@star1.iwl.net> From: sada@rr.IIJ4U.OR.JP (SADA Kenji) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.21] 1997-12/23(Tue) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Hello Sada, Hi, star :) From next time, please send such questions to ports-ML. Here we write one article and could help many. >> I'm trying to install the Netscape Navigator 4.6.1 port on a FreeBSD 2.2.8 >> system. >> >> The port lists you as maintainer. >> >> I don't really need Communicator, but I loaded it since the >> Makefile for Navigator includes the Makefile for Communicator 4.6.1. In that case you should exptract www/netscape{4-communicator, 46-{communicator,navigator}} . >> Incidentally, the Communicator 4.6.1 makefile has a date of 1997 >> and "thepish" as maintainer, although it does indicate version "4.6+". You must misfiled the ports skeleton. Latest Makefile has a tag: # $Id: Makefile,v 1.44 1999/07/01 23:36:29 sada Exp $ FYI: `Date created' field shows created date of original skeleton, maybe version 4.5. FYI2: I've sent a mail to thepish about changing maintainer, but it was bounced X-( >> Anyway, the Communicator 4.6.1 Makefile includes the makefile for >> "netscape4-communicator" via a "MASTERDIR" definition. >> That makefile looks for communicator 4.0.7 distribution, which is no longer >> found on the Netscape FTP site as listed in the Makefile. It's also obsolete. Current version of www/netscape4-communicator is 4.08. >> I thought you would want to know that your port wasn't working. >> The port for Navigator version 4.5.1 worked fine. Please note: * Netscape navigator 4.61 port is for ports-current now. Even 3.2-RELEASE is too old and has no guarantee. You could check it at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/netscape46-communicator/Makefile As a suggestion: * Some user runs Navigator 4.61 port on 2.2.8-RELEASE. This is completely no guaranteed and you must put it into practice by yourself. Probably you have to pkg_add the upgrade kit package at least. >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Andy Thanks for the report :) -- SADA Kenji "There's a rainbow in my soul" Gene Chandler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message