Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
At 02:54 22/10/2011, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? 2) is the dependency on FF3 a bug in libxul? If it is a bug, who should receive a report: gecko@ or the Mozilla project? FYI: I'm pretty sure it was portsclean -D (and not me) that deleted FF3...yet libxul tried to pull it in during the portupgrade. As far as i know, the libxul port is inside ff3. Installing libxul doesn't install ff3, only libxul. Perhaps it's an old libxul and the newr one is inside ff7, so libxul port should point there, don't know that. Best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:32:47 +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: As far as i know, the libxul port is inside ff3. Installing libxul doesn't install ff3, only libxul. Perhaps it's an old libxul and the newr one is inside ff7, so libxul port should point there, don't know that. I'm not sure if it still applies, but in earlier Firefox version transitions (and the consideration of dependencies) some programs depending on libxul would install an outdated Firefox version. The solution has been WITH_GECKO=libxul in /etc/make.conf so only the current version of this library would have been installed in the end. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:45:11 +0200 Polytropon articulated: I'm not sure if it still applies, but in earlier Firefox version transitions (and the consideration of dependencies) some programs depending on libxul would install an outdated Firefox version. The solution has been WITH_GECKO=libxul in /etc/make.conf so only the current version of this library would have been installed in the end. I haven't had that notation in my /etc/make.conf file in ages and I am not experiencing the problems that the OP is reporting. Perhaps if the OP gave a fuller description of his system, and perhaps a perusal of his /etc/make.conf file a solution could be more readily deduced. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? libxul doesn't depend on FF3. We just use the FF3.6 source tarball to build xulrunner (libxul) as upstream no longer provides tarballs for the latest xulrunner 1.9.2.x releases. Nevertheless FF3.6 is still supported upstream and security problems get fixed regularly during the normal Mozilla release cycle. 2) is the dependency on FF3 a bug in libxul? If it is a bug, who should receive a report: gecko@ or the Mozilla project? There is no FF3 dependency in libxul. HTH, Beat FYI: I'm pretty sure it was portsclean -D (and not me) that deleted FF3...yet libxul tried to pull it in during the portupgrade. Best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:28:40PM +0200, Beat G?tzi wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? libxul doesn't depend on FF3. Got it. Thanks, and best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? 2) is the dependency on FF3 a bug in libxul? If it is a bug, who should receive a report: gecko@ or the Mozilla project? FYI: I'm pretty sure it was portsclean -D (and not me) that deleted FF3...yet libxul tried to pull it in during the portupgrade. Best regards, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
