Firefox 4 - Beta

[Heino Tiedemann]

Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Heino Tiedemann
>> Yes, it is Fast! I belive it is even faster on startup...
>>
>> One Question:
>>
>> Do I HAVE TO put it into my ports tree? Or can I put it somewhere into
>> my home directory tree?
>>
>> e.g.
>> 1 cd ~/myports/www
>> 2 svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/www/firefox-devel
>> 3 cd firefox-devel
>> 4 make install clean
>>
>>
>> Does that work? Where doesthe distfile go to then?
>
> distfiles goes to /usr/ports/distfiles. You don't have to mv it into
> your ports tree. After you have done sudo make fetch, you can build
> the port as a normal user.


What I wanted to avoid is that portupgrade blames the
www/firefox-devel directory. 

But - therefore it does no matter if it is installed from ports tree
or from home directory tree:

,----
| [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 554 packages found (-0 +1) . done]
| ** Port directory not found: www/firefox-devel
| ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
|         - www/firefox-devel (port directory error)
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