Portupgrade Ate My Firefox

Howard Goldstein hg at queue.to
Fri Aug 10 05:59:16 UTC 2007


Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Not sure if this is a bug in the Firefox port or in portupgrade,
> but portupgrade ate my Firefox install. When the build failed,
> it still tried to install, and didn't notice that the install
> failed either. That both failed makes me wonder if the port was
> not actually returning an error.
> 
> --->  Upgrading 'firefox-2.0.0.3,1' to 'firefox-2.0.0.6,1' (www/firefox)
> --->  Building '/usr/ports/www/firefox'
> ===>  Cleaning for firefox-2.0.0.6,1
> ===>  Found saved configuration for firefox-1.0.4,1
> => firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /var/tmp/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.6/source/.
> firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2                100% of   35 MB  421 kBps 00m00s
> ===>  Extracting for firefox-2.0.0.6,1
> => MD5 Checksum OK for firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2.
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2.
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found
> ===>  Patching for firefox-2.0.0.6,1
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for firefox-2.0.0.6,1
> pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s)
> /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's|%%PTHREAD_LIBS%%|-lpthread|'  /var/tmp/ports/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/storage/build/Makefile.in
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on package: nss>=3.11.2 - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on executable in : zip - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on executable in : gmake - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on executable in : pkg-config - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on executable in : update-desktop-database - found
> ===>   firefox-2.0.0.6,1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
> /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed.
> This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X.  In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists at all.

Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the procedure to
upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1
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This is going to sound like a stupid question but did you upgrade to xorg7?


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