From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 25 21:09:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1651065672 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596AD8FC1B for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9822 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2010 21:09:36 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Feb 2010 21:09:36 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id EFCDC50868; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:09:34 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Programmer In Training References: <4B86B728.3090404@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:09:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B86B728.3090404@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> (Programmer In Training's message of "Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:45:12 -0600") Message-ID: <44sk8pkooh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Mozilla Updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:37 -0000 Programmer In Training writes: > Since the advisories from Mozilla[0-1] have been released, and updates > for at least FireFox and Thunderbird are available, when will they be > made available via ports (especially FF 3.6 TB 3.0.2)? Should I > deinstall the ports version and go ahead and compile from source > available at Mozilla's sites? I'm not sure what you're asking. Firefox 3.6 has been available from ports for over two weeks. Thunderbird hasn't been updated yet, but 3.0.2 has only been out for a few hours. I would recommend that if you want updates faster than the maintainers check them in, you go ahead and build them yourself, but think carefully about how to do it. If you build without the ports system, it can be difficult to remove the program again when you next wish to update. If you don't have the skills to update the port skeleton to a new version, you probably won't find it any easier to build the program from scratch. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/