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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:05:38
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0907271605n1a8aaa86le2a1133c55c5f0bf@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies by walt
1 On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com>  wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
7 >>>>
8 >>>>   I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch
9 >>>> version of Firefox 3.0.  I keep getting the same error message after
10 >>>> 3 days of re-syncing and retrying.  The build dies early on in the
11 >>>> patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small.  The error message also
12 >>>> mentioned to include the contents of the patch ".out" file, which I have
13 >>>> done as log2.txt.  Any ideas?
14 >>>
15 >>> My ~amd64 machine skipped that version and went to 3.5.1 instead.
16 >>> Is there a particular reason you don't want to do that?
17 >>>
18 >>
19 >> Possibly because it's not marked stable?...
20 >
21 > 3.0.12 is also marked unstable, so I assumed that Walter (the other one)
22 > is running an unstable gentoo.  Because these rapid updates to firefox
23 > are all security patches it would be nice to get the latest one...
24
25 Yeah, I agree. I wanted 3.0.12 also as 3.0.11 apparently has a
26 security bug but I felt like 3.5 was probably a jump to big.
27
28 Cheers,
29 Mark