cvs commit: ports/www/firefox15 Makefile distinfo

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 10 08:03:45 UTC 2006


On 2006.11.10 02:06:28 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:54 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2006.11.09 16:21:34 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > > Simon L. Nielsen 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?
> > > 
> > > Nope.  We cannot import 2.0 into 6.2 since it touches too many ports.  A
> > > backout and exorcism is the only way to go.  WE should avoid a PORTEPOCH
> > > on this, though since it won't be permanent.
> > 
> > Well, one evil thought which might help a bit... if somebody has the
> > commits ready so they can be done within a short timespam I could
> > temporarily stop cvsupd on repoman while the commits are done - that
> > way no users would ever get the temporary commit so no PORTEPOCH would
> > be needed.  Of course this would need to be coordinated, but I think
> > it could be done.
> > 
> > I need to poke the cvsup-master@ people to make sure it doesn't give
> > cvsup-master any problems, but I doubt it should be a problem.
> 
> Well, I got everything lined up so I could do the whole thing in under a
> minute.  I picked a time I thought would be off-peak.  The tag has been
> slipped, and I don't think anyone had a chance to get 1.5.0.8.

Great, thanks!

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen


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