Best way to cause synth to ignore rebuilding of a port??

[Jan Beich]

Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > What is the best way to get synth to simply ignore certain ports when
>> > > running
>> > > the upgrade-system command with it? I would like for it to not upgrade
>> > > firefox
>> > > (don't want to lose my tab groups) so I'd rather that it not even consider
>> > > updating firefox again, at least not till some form of tab groups are again
>> > > supported.
>> > >
>> > > Note that I haven't tried ver 52 of firefox, but from what I've read it
>> > > sounds
>> > > like all plugins/addons other than flash are no longer supported.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Switch to the ESR version, and all NPAPI plugins will be enabled and
>> > supported until around May of next year.  :)
>> >
>> > Firefox 52    disables everything except Flash.
>> > Firefox 52ESR leaves everything enabled.
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269807
>> > 
>>
>> Yeah, but isn't the ESR version relatively down-level WRT to version 51
>> that
>> I'm currently using? The Makefile in www/firefox-esr has a verison of
>> 45.8.0.
>>
>> Not anxious to go backwards on everything.
>>
> 52ESR was just released.  Give the ports maintainer time to get it into
> the tree.  :)  (Note, I don't have Firefox on FreeBSD at the moment so just
> going by what's released online, not what's available in the ports tree.)

What's the point of rushing into ESR 52 from stable ESR 45 ? If you didn't
notice comment 136 in upstream bug mentions a workaround for non-ESR channel.

www/firefox-esr switch can drag until 2017-06-13 when ESR 45 would reach EOL.