gecko & firefox marked forbidden

[Martin Wilke]

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:33:16PM -0500, Naram Qashat wrote:
> t-u-t wrote:
> > just a note,
> > firefox2 has been marked forbidden, and it stopped me twice while 
> > building gnome2-lite today when pulled for gecko depends by www/epiphany 
> > and x11/yelp.
> > 
> > on my own system i fixed the Makefiles of these two to use xulrunner, 
> > (which was there anyway - just removed firefox), but i don't know what 
> > other effects there are on other ports etc.
> > 
> > n.b. i don't need ff2, just noting
> 
> I'll point out that the same issue occured for me with multimedia/vlc.  It was 
> updated to have xulrunner after firefox in USE_GECKO, but even defining 
> WITH_GECKO=xulrunner it still tried to install firefox2.  I don't know what the 
> bug is, but there is one.

Hi,

Firefox2 is no longer supported by the Mozilla Foundation.
We marked this port BROKEN as part of the last Security update
for Firefox3 [1]. Firefox2 is also affected with the same
Isusses as in Firefox3. That's the reason.

[1] See also:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-01.html Impact: Critical
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-03.html Impact: High
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-04.html Impact: Moderate
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-05.html Impact: Low
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/8b491182-f842-11dd-94d9-0030843d3802.html

Maybe should someone take a look to get some backport patches?

- - Martin

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