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Hi NG!

I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!

I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
the answer even though it is most likely really simple...

I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
--pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?

TIA
/Michael

ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi NG!
>
> I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!
>
> I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
> the answer even though it is most likely really simple...
>
> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?

Donnu about the versions issue. But I know that you need to recompile FF
every time it upgrades. On my 2,8ghz P4 it takes.......ages.......so I use
the binary version by running;

emerge firefox-bin

There is no noticable speed difference, in compiling it yourself, or not.

BR

Stig
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ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?

Yes. Put this into your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:
#firefox
dev-libs/nss ~x86
www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86

And yes, you might want to choose mozilla-firefox-bin if you don't want to
compile the *big* package.
Eggert

Thx for the responds :-)


ZiGGi wrote:
> Hi NG!
>
> I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!
>
> I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
> the answer even though it is most likely really simple...
>
> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?
>
> TIA
> /Michael

Eggert Ehmke a écrit :

> [...]

Yes. Put this into your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:
> #firefox
> dev-libs/nss ~x86
> www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
>
Hi,
is there a difference between doing what you said and editing the
/etc/make.conf file to add this new line ?
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS "~x86"

thx in advance
cedrik

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:45:45 +0200, Stig Mogensen wrote:

> Donnu about the versions issue. But I know that you need to recompile FF
> every time it upgrades. On my 2,8ghz P4 it takes.......ages.......so I use
> the binary version by running;

Ages? I guess some guys really have no patience whatsoever

On an AMD64-3500:
Fri May 26 12:11:50 2006 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3
merge time: 28 minutes and 11 seconds.

On a busy AMD MP-2400:
Mon May 8 10:11:09 2006 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3
merge time: 44 minutes and 8 seconds.

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:48:59 +0200, Cedrik <boussier.cedrik@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
| Eggert Ehmke a écrit :
|
|> [...]
|
| Yes. Put this into your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:
|> #firefox
|> dev-libs/nss ~x86
|> www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
|>
| Hi,
| is there a difference between doing what you said and editing the
| /etc/make.conf file to add this new line ?
| ACCEPT_KEYWORDS "~x86"


Yes. Using /etc/portage/package.keywords just allows the testing
version of the listed packages. Using /etc/make.conf is a global
stable/testing switch.


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I did not wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:45:45 +0200, Stig Mogensen wrote:
>
>> Donnu about the versions issue. But I know that you need to recompile FF
>> every time it upgrades. On my 2,8ghz P4 it takes.......ages.......so I
>> use the binary version by running;
>
> Ages? I guess some guys really have no patience whatsoever

:-D

Still, you spend time compiling when you IMHO don't have to, as it makes no
difference anyway.

/Stig

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ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi NG!
>
> I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!
>
> I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
> the answer even though it is most likely really simple...
>
> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?

This was asked here just a few weeks ago. The answer now is the same as it
was then:

It's an unstable POS? :-P
Seriously, there's so many known bugs with Firefox that I really hope it
won't be marked stable any time soon.

<URL:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_d esc=Firefox&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug _status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_severity= blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&b ug_severity=normal>

Popularity should never pressure maintainers into marking a package as
stable, if it really isn't; people who really want an unstable package can
set ~arch for that package.

Regards,
--
*Art

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:16:35 -0400, "Arthur Hagen" <art@broomstick.com>
wrote:

>ZiGGi <ziggiman_REMOVE_ME_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi NG!
>>
>> I'm pretty new to Gentoo but must admit that I am really impressed!
>>
>> I've been googling a small issue I've run into but can't seem to find
>> the answer even though it is most likely really simple...
>>
>> I've got my entire system up and running and is now installing misc
>> applications. The current issue is connected to firefox. 'emerge
>> --pretend mozilla-firefox' shows that it will install Firefox 1.0.8.
>> Firefox have moved to 1.5.x a while ago. 'emerge sync' does not change
>> anything. Why is it that emerge is trying to build an "old" version?
>> Some "stable"/"unstable" issue?
>
>This was asked here just a few weeks ago. The answer now is the same as it
>was then:
>
>It's an unstable POS? :-P
>Seriously, there's so many known bugs with Firefox that I really hope it
>won't be marked stable any time soon.
>
><URL:
>http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_d esc=Firefox&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug _status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_severity= blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&b ug_severity=normal>
>
>Popularity should never pressure maintainers into marking a package as
>stable, if it really isn't; people who really want an unstable package can
>set ~arch for that package.
>
>Regards,

Seems most of the bugs were for the 1.0.x branch.
The only bug I see in 1.5 is that using the mouse wheel to scroll up
will switch tabs. And that has happened in every linux FF version
I've ever used.

(I'm kind of hoping that someone knows how to defeat this 'feature',
as I suspect it's something inherent in X (or my configuration).
Scrolling up in Konq does a paste from Klipper.)

Peter
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