cvs commit: ports/www/firefox15 Makefile distinfo

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 03:16:57PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:04:20 -0600, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:54:18PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> >>On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:29:52 -0600, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at FreeBSD.org>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 2006.11.09 19:17:41 +0000, Michael Johnson wrote:
> >>>>ahze        2006-11-09 19:17:41 UTC
> >>>>
> >>>>  FreeBSD ports repository
> >>>>
> >>>>  Modified files:
> >>>>    www/firefox15        Makefile distinfo
> >>>>  Log:
> >>>>  - Update to 1.5.0.8
> >>>>  - Mark DEPRECATED by Firefox 2.0
> >>>
> >>>We need to find some way to get this into 6.2... unfortunately since
> >>>6.2 contains firefox 1.5 as www/firefox I'm not really sure how to do
> >>>this.  I talked a bit to kris about this on IRC today, but the only
> >>>way there really seem to be to do this (which don't involve nasty
> >>>hacks) was to add firefox 1.5.0.8 as www/firefox temporarily and then
> >>>re-adding 2.0 as www/firefox there...
> >>>
> >>>Anybody got any better ideas?
> >>
> >>I don't know what 1.5.0.8 has, but if there has some serious security
> >>issue fix in 1.5.0.8 then it's ok with me. As for 2.0, I disagree for to
> >>get it in 6.2. It's not ready and not have the same level of stability  
> >>as
> >>in 1.5.x.
> >
> >Yep, the question is how to manage getting a 1.5 version of
> >www/firefox into 6.2, since the port was already spammed by the 2.0
> >update.
> 
> Commit in the RELENG_6_2_0 of ports tree, then rebuild all ports depend on  
> firefox. Will that work?

Nope, that's a tag not a branch.  This is why it's so important not to
commit "large" updates during the slush.  The update of www/firefox to
2.0 probably counted as large since it's an incompatible update and
affects so many ports.

> If it is not possible to commit in the RELENG_6_2_0, then do the checkout  
> RELENG_6_2_0 and tweak in www/firefox before start to rebuild all ports  
> depend on firefox. I know that will working with MarcusCom Tinderbox, but  
> I don't know what about with your tinderbox.

Not appropriate since the ports collection checked out by users won't
include the fix.

Kris
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