Reporting problems with Firefox (?)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 01:44 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <1182408338.68646.8.camel at shumai.marcuscom.com>, you wrote:
> 
> >Debugging is the only way to go as I cannot reproduce this problem ,and
> >you are the only one complaining of it.  That said, you might try
> >www/firefox (which is Firefox 2.0).
> 
> Begging yourt pardon, but that does not seem to be the case, actually.
> 
> In the /usr/ports tree that was distributed with 6.2-RELEASE (which is
> what I am runing, and what I just installed) the Makefile within the
> www/firefox directory makes it abundantly clear that doing a "make" in
> that directory will only get me another (probably equally broken) copy
> of Firefox 1.5.0.8.
> 
> So what should I do?  Download a new /usr/ports tree and then go into
> www/firefox and do a build?

You should get a new ports tree, and follow all relevant steps
in /usr/ports/UPDATING to upgrade all installed packages from their
ports.

> 
> >> I don't remember ever installing anything from the /usr/ports tree for th=
> >is.
> >>=20
> >> I believe that I just pulled the pre-compiled package "firefox-1.5.0.8,1"
> >> off of the install CDs.  Anyway, in /var/db/pkg I do see an entrit called
> >> firefox-1.5.0.8,1.
> >
> >Try using ports instead of packages.
> 
> See above.  The /usr/ports tree that was distributed with 6.2-RELEASE contains
> the same versions of stuff as are in the pre-compiled packages.
> 
> >>=20
> >> OK, so let's say that I want to try the linux-firefox version.  I must
> >> ask this:  Do I first need to replace all of the X11 related stuff, i.e.
> >> "upgrade" from X.org 6.9.0 to X.org 7.2 first?
> >
> >You definitely should upgrade all your ports before reporting problems.
> 
> Yeabut is X11 considered part of "ports"?

Yes.

> 
> That's what I am asking, and what I would like somebody to help me to
> understand.  (Please forgive my abundant ignorance and please do enlighten
> me.)
> 
> I thought that X11 was _special_ and that it was more of an intergral part
> of the OS.  No?  Just another "port"?

X.Org is a meta-port that builds hundreds of other ports (just like
GNOME).  If you upgrade, you need to be aware of the special
instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

Joe

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