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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2012 21:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Douglas William Thrift <douglas@douglasthrift.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        gecko@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/168091: Port error: USE_FIREFOX doesn't work correctly
Message-ID:  <201205180438.q4I4cOie094341@slowhand.douglasthrift.net>
Resent-Message-ID: <201205180440.q4I4e2rV002684@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         168091
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Port error: USE_FIREFOX doesn't work correctly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 18 04:40:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Douglas William Thrift
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD justonenight.douglasthrift.net 8.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1 #9: Thu May 3 10:57:52 PDT 2012 root@justonenight.douglasthrift.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FURTHERONUPTHEROAD amd64
>Description:
I was working on updating my port www/py-selenium and when I went to make the distinfo for the new distfile, I got the following:

===>  py27-selenium-2.21.3 cannot install: unknown Firefox version: firefox-3.6+.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /home/douglas/freebsd/www/py-selenium.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /home/douglas/freebsd/www/py-selenium.


I looked at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk and discovered that the value 36+ was no
longer listed, so much for backward compatibility with ports, but fair enough.
Based on this I changed the value of USE_FIREFOX to 10+, but that didn't make
things any better:

===>  py27-selenium-2.21.3 cannot install: Firefox versions mismatch: firefox-12 is installed and wanted version is firefox-10+.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /home/douglas/freebsd/www/py-selenium.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /home/douglas/freebsd/www/py-selenium.


That definitely doesn't seem right! I tried 12 and 12+ and they both worked
okay, but the port should also support the Firefox 10 line. It looks like my
port is the only one so far to even use the + functionality so I guess I
shouldn't be surprised by this.

I'm also a bit puzzled at the choice of 10 rather than 10+ for USE_FIREFOX= yes.
>How-To-Repeat:
Write a port with USE_FIREFOX set to 10+ and try to build it on a system with
Firefox 12 installed.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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