Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Daniel D Jones schreef:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26, Beau E. Cox wrote:
>> On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote:
>>> I'd like to run Firefox 1.5.  The latest stable build appears to be 1.07.
>>> I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which
>>> resulted in Deer Park being installed.  I don't want Deer Park, just the
>>> 1.5 release version.  I've considered downloading the source and manually
>>> installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage
>>> at some point.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>> I think I read that Deer Park is the name for Firefox that is used
>> to get an GPL-type liscense - but is really Firefox.
> 
> I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer Park 
> was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release.  I thought it 
> was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the time the 
> package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official release 
> source.  Am I confused?

Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild:
# $Header:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.ebuild,v
1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $

unset ALLOWED_FLAGS  # stupid extra-functions.sh ... bug 49179
MOZ_FREETYPE2="no"   # Need to disable for newer .. remove here and in
mozconfig
                         # when older is removed from tree.
MOZ_PANGO="yes"      # Need to enable for newer .. remove here and in
mozconfig
                         # when older is removed from tree.

inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs eutils mozconfig-2 mozilla-launcher
makeedit multilib fdo-mime mozextension autotools

LANGS="ar ca cs da de el en-GB es-AR es-ES fi fr ga-IE he hu it ja ko mk
nb-NO nl pl pt-BR ro ru sk sl sv-SE tr zh-CN zh-TW"
SHORTLANGS="es-ES ga-IE nb-NO sv-SE"
PVER="1.4"

DESCRIPTION="Firefox Web Browser"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/"
==>
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/source/firefox-${PV}-source.tar.bz2

As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases
folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder.

Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so
marked in their title, if they exist.

For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage)
which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called
"krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by
Portage.

If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of
course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/...

Holly
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