firefox-esr removed by pkg, cannot build firefox-esr from ports

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 19:09:44 UTC 2020


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:39 PM James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
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> On Tue, March 10, 2020 14:53, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > The title says it all.  I ran
> > # pkg update
> > # pkg upgrade
> > and I did not realize that it would remove firefox-esr till it was too
> > late. I typed y and applied the damage.  Now I cannot get firefox-esr
> > back.  The pkg command does not find firefox-esr and I ran
> >
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> As of yesterday FF would not build in time for QUARTERLY update.  So, it got
> removed when anyone ran pkg upgrade.  The most recent version that does build
> is in the LASTEST repo.
>
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Dear James et all,

I have successfully installed firefox-esr again.  Thank you for help.

Best Regards,


Antonio


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