When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Nov 26 05:17:26 UTC 2012


On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily
>> frozen.  Does anyone know when it will again be updates.  I just upgraded
>> to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox & Thunderbird against the new
>> libraries and ... they're broken, marked as security hazards...
>
> It's been being updated normally since near enough a week ago.
> "Normally" means subject to the pre-9.1-RELEASE restrictions on sweeping
> changes as is usual at this point in a release cycle.
>
> FireFox 17 and Thunderbird 17 updates were committed to ports on 20th
> November.

Hmm.  Is the index file being rebuilt?  With FF16 installed, and 17 in 
the port directory, portsdb -Fu && portversion -vl'<' shows nothing to 
update.

After 'make index', it does show.


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