Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 00:22:50 +0000 (UTC) From: jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan Beich) To: bob@immure.com, fjwcash@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port?? Message-ID: <20170309002250.07EE93801@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ6RkG8EiP8gBn=rDReK04XOF_87oa57qd-7e=fy6JpLJw@mail.gmail.com>
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Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: >> > >> > > What is the best way to get synth to simply ignore certain ports when >> > > running >> > > the upgrade-system command with it? I would like for it to not upgrade >> > > firefox >> > > (don't want to lose my tab groups) so I'd rather that it not even consider >> > > updating firefox again, at least not till some form of tab groups are again >> > > supported. >> > > >> > > Note that I haven't tried ver 52 of firefox, but from what I've read it >> > > sounds >> > > like all plugins/addons other than flash are no longer supported. >> > > >> > >> > Switch to the ESR version, and all NPAPI plugins will be enabled and >> > supported until around May of next year. :) >> > >> > Firefox 52 disables everything except Flash. >> > Firefox 52ESR leaves everything enabled. >> > >> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807 >> > >> >> Yeah, but isn't the ESR version relatively down-level WRT to version 51 >> that >> I'm currently using? The Makefile in www/firefox-esr has a verison of >> 45.8.0. >> >> Not anxious to go backwards on everything. >> > 52ESR was just released. Give the ports maintainer time to get it into > the tree. :) (Note, I don't have Firefox on FreeBSD at the moment so just > going by what's released online, not what's available in the ports tree.) What's the point of rushing into ESR 52 from stable ESR 45 ? If you didn't notice comment 136 in upstream bug mentions a workaround for non-ESR channel. www/firefox-esr switch can drag until 2017-06-13 when ESR 45 would reach EOL.
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