Firefox

[Nikolas Britton]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:24 pm, Joshua Tinnin 
><krinklyfig at spymac.com> wrote:
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>
>>On Tuesday 01 February 2005 03:07 pm, Aperez <alfredoj69 at gmail.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>Nikolas Britton wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Chris Hodgins wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Nikolas Britton wrote:
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Alfredo Perez wrote:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have
>>>>>>>installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to
>>>>>>>version 1.0?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system
>>>>>>and wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update your ports but
>>>>>>it installed 0.9.3?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What I would do:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>my ports-sup file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>#*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org
>>>>>>*default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
>>>>>>#*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
>>>>>>#*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
>>>>>>*default base=/var/db
>>>>>>*default prefix=/usr
>>>>>>*default release=cvs tag=.
>>>>>>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>>>>>>*default compress
>>>>>>ports-all
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-----------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > su
>>>>>>
>>>>>># cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
>>>>>>(normally i'd just run pkg_version -v |grep "<" and if needed
>>>>>>portupgrade after cvsuping, if I was upgrading something like
>>>>>>Gnome or KDE i'd exit X)
>>>>>># cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
>>>>>># make deinstall
>>>>>># more M*
>>>>>># make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes install clean
>>>>>># exit
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > rehash
>>>>>> > firefox&
>>>>>> > exit
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>Could his problem be that he has simply not fetched the index?
>>>>>
>>>>>I normally do:
>>>>>
>>>>># cvsup -g -L2 /usr/ports-supfile
>>>>>..
>>>>>..
>>>>># cd /usr/ports
>>>>># make fetchindex
>>>>># portsdb -u
>>>>>
>>>>>and then I would try reinstalling it using the method above.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I don't think that would keep him from installing the newer
>>>>version after he cvsuped, system might complain or manually
>>>>rebuild the index but thats it. After the portupgrade problem
>>>>with index and how long it takes to rebuild the index I now do
>>>>this now too. also I run pkgdb -F or pkgdb -Fu and portsclean -C
>>>>before running portupgrade -arRwW and after I run portupgrade I
>>>>run portsclean -CDD and then clean out the old libs, that is...if
>>>>portupgrade had no errors. He emailed me and said he was
>>>>installing it for the first time, I think he just didn't do the
>>>>cvsup part correctly.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Okey, I just updated my ports following your instructions. I saw in
>>>the Makefile file that the port version is equal to 1.0 ( before
>>>was equal to 0.9). Now, what should I do next::
>>>
>>>Desinstall Firefox and install it again and then I run pkgdb
>>>
>>>or
>>>
>>>First run pkgbd and then install Firefox
>>>      
>>>
>># cd /usr/ports/www/firefox && make deinstall && make clean
>># make && make install && make clean
>>
>>Alternately:
>>
>># cd /usr/ports/www/firefox && make deinstall && make reinstall
>>
>>... but I suggest the first way, as it would be sure to clean out
>>everything first before rebuilding.
>>
>>The pkgdb stuff will be done automatically.
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>>
>
>Also, I guess I should mention it as others have brought it up, but you 
>can use portupgrade to do this, too, though the way I described doesn't 
>need it, and it does essentially the same thing. Maybe you've already 
>installed it and are using it. In that case:
>
># portupgrade -rR firefox
>
>Portupgrade is a convenient tool, but you have to watch out for 
>occasional dependency problems. Here's a good tutorial:
>
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1
>
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>

It should be noted that your getting a lot of different advice and 
commands to run. the reason for this is that everyone has there own 
style for upgrading and installing ports (and you may or may not be 
getting verbose advice). when/if you pick and choose the commands to run 
from different people here without knowing what they do you could run 
into problems, its time to start reading:

http://www.google.com/search?q=portupgrade+site%3Aonlamp.com
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html