Firefox

[Aperez]

Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Chris Hodgins wrote:
>
>> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>>
>>> Alfredo Perez wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed
>>>> Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and 
>>> wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update your ports but it 
>>> installed 0.9.3?
>>>
>>> What I would do:
>>>
>>> my ports-sup file:
>>>
>>> #*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org
>>> *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
>>> #*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
>>> #*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
>>> *default base=/var/db
>>> *default prefix=/usr
>>> *default release=cvs tag=.
>>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>>> *default compress
>>> ports-all
>>>
>>> -----------------------------
>>>  > su
>>> # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
>>> (normally i'd just run pkg_version -v |grep "<" and if needed 
>>> portupgrade after cvsuping, if I was upgrading something like Gnome 
>>> or KDE i'd exit X)
>>> # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
>>> # make deinstall
>>> # more M*
>>> # make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes install clean
>>> # exit
>>>  > rehash
>>>  > firefox&
>>>  > exit
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> Could his problem be that he has simply not fetched the index?
>>
>> I normally do:
>>
>> # cvsup -g -L2 /usr/ports-supfile
>> ..
>> ..
>> # cd /usr/ports
>> # make fetchindex
>> # portsdb -u
>>
>> and then I would try reinstalling it using the method above.
>>
>>
> I don't think that would keep him from installing the newer version 
> after he cvsuped, system might complain or manually rebuild the index 
> but thats it. After the portupgrade problem with index and how long it 
> takes to rebuild the index I now do this now too. also I run pkgdb -F 
> or pkgdb -Fu and portsclean -C before running portupgrade -arRwW and 
> after I run portupgrade I run portsclean -CDD and then clean out the 
> old libs, that is...if portupgrade had no errors. He emailed me and 
> said he was installing it for the first time, I think he just didn't 
> do the cvsup part correctly.
>
>

Okey, I just updated my ports following your instructions. I saw in the 
Makefile file that the port version is equal to 1.0 ( before was equal 
to 0.9). Now, what should I do next::

Desinstall Firefox and install it again and then I run pkgdb

or

First run pkgbd and then install Firefox