cvs commit: ports/www/firefox15 Makefile distinfo

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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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?

RELEASE_6_2_0 is a tag not a branch.  That's enough about branching the
ports tree.

> 
> 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.

That will work for package building, but not for preserving the sanctity
of release.  We need to be able to checkout the ports that shipped with
6.2 well into the year 2038.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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