Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:28:59 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
To:        Alfredo Perez <alfredoj69@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox
Message-ID:  <41FFF49B.4000606@nbritton.org>
In-Reply-To: <f40f0e505020112372ec229d6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f40f0e505020112372ec229d6@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alfredo Perez wrote:

>Hi
>
>I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed
>Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0?
>
>Thanks
>
>PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3
>
>  
>
Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and 
wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update your ports but it installed 
0.9.3?

What I would do:

my ports-sup file:

#*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org
*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
#*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
#*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
ports-all

-----------------------------
 > su
# cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
(normally i'd just run pkg_version -v |grep "<" and if needed 
portupgrade after cvsuping, if I was upgrading something like Gnome or 
KDE i'd exit X)
# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
# make deinstall
# more M*
# make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes install clean
# exit
 > rehash
 > firefox&
 > exit




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41FFF49B.4000606>