Port details
netscape4-communicator Netscape ver 4 communicator web-surfboard
4.08 www
Σ =6 4.08Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. FORBIDDEN: "Has a serious security hole, use 4.77 or later instead. (These ports are available only for linux version and alpha arch. Looks Netscape has stopped to release new FreeBSD native binary)"Maintainer: sada@FreeBSD.org Port Added: unknown
Last Update: 2002-11-17 06:21:51
SVN Revision: UNKNOWN
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WWW: http://www.fortify.net/ Description: # This is the netscape web-surfboard. Please read the file
"/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms.
Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chmod 444 fonts.dir
And then exit and restart your X server.
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>0:www/netscape4-communicator No installation instructions: This port has been deleted. PKGNAME: Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. # distinfo: # There is no distinfo for this port.
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netscape : www/netscape-wrapper libX11.so.6.1 : x11/XFree86-aoutlibs
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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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4.08 17 Nov 2002 06:21:51
sada
Remove all netscape ports with a vulnerability of JRE.
cf.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/218&type=0&nav=sec.sba
Submitted by: trevor
Silently agreed by: maintainers
4.08 22 May 2002 01:56:50
sada
Unbreak with linux_base-7.1 .
PR: ports/35778
Submitted by: znerd
Approved by: maintainer
29 Jan 2002 12:08:37
knu
Use ${ECHO_CMD} instead of ${ECHO} where you mean the echo command; the ECHO
macro is set to "echo" by default, but it is set to "true" if make(1) is
invoked with the -s option while ECHO_CMD is always set to the echo command.
20 Nov 2001 23:29:38
lioux
Style police: WWW tags should either end in a file/script or TRAILING /; Fix the
later case
17 Nov 2001 05:46:50
sada
Upgrade linux-netscapes to 4.79.
19 Aug 2001 09:33:28
knu
Avoid the usage of a variable named "BROWSER", not to conflict with user's
environment variable with the same name.
05 Aug 2001 19:18:01
sada
Try to clearify circumstances of FreeBSD native version in the FORBIDDEN
message.
05 Aug 2001 18:46:40
sada
linux-netscape should know its true NPX_PLUGIN_PATH.
05 Aug 2001 17:24:41
sada
upgrade to 4.78 for alpha arch.
29 Jul 2001 00:17:50
sada
Upgrade linux-netscape4-c/s to 4.78. Here is the release note:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/windows-4.78.html
02 Jun 2001 20:11:54
sada
Mark as broken, as same as for 4.76.
06 May 2001 14:02:59
sada
Put back long broken message.
27 Apr 2001 13:13:42
sada
Notate detailed condition about BROKEN 4.76.
10 Apr 2001 16:37:23
sada
Mark as broken for 4.76 browsers. See
<http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/175060> for details.
08 Apr 2001 21:41:17
sada
Upgrade alpha netscapes to v4.77.
07 Apr 2001 17:41:37
mharo
linux-netscape 4.7 is updated to 4.77, due to a security bug where a malicous
user can read your history file.
22 Feb 2001 20:33:34
olgeni
Don't look for compat22 when installed from sysinstall. See also ports/23907
for more details.
16 Jan 2001 17:33:20
sobomax
Massive style enforcement - use ^I instead of spaces for variables identation.
01 Jan 2001 10:15:17
will
Goodbye, YEAR2000. Hello, 2001.
01 Nov 2000 16:21:19
sada
${ALPHA} couldn't be refered before include <bsd.port.pre.mk>, so netscape4
ports ware broken.
29 Oct 2000 17:06:44
sada
RUN_DEPENDS to osf1-lib on alpha arch.
29 Oct 2000 17:01:21
sada
Upgrade to 4.76. This version is fixed for buffer overflow security hole.
08 Oct 2000 11:23:49
asami
Change PKGDIR from pkg/ to . Also fix places where ${PKGDIR} is spelled out
(many of which are ${PKGDIR}/MESSAGE -> ${PKGMESSAGE} type fixes that
shouldn't have been necessary) and the string "/pkg/" appear.
08 Oct 2000 08:11:25
asami
Convert category www to new layout.
08 Oct 2000 07:34:05
asami
Rename REQ.aout to pkg-req.aout.
19 Aug 2000 22:49:40
sada
Upgrade to v4.75. Remove needless lines from n47-n/Makefile.
08 Aug 2000 17:25:13
sada
Update entries for bsdi-netscapes to v4.74.
02 Aug 2000 07:30:09
sada
Add missing md5 for n-47-c for alpha.
27 Jul 2000 22:48:39
sada
Upgrade to 4.74. Master-site list is increased and applied changes to hold
it common between other netscape47 ports.
25 Jul 2000 16:16:45
sada
Upgrade to 4.74. Now many users out of U.S. could use 128bit key encryption.
18 Jun 2000 11:00:08
asami
Temporarily back out 1.69 -- it kills netscape47-* ports.
10 Jun 2000 03:13:06
obrien
Replace DEC OSF/1 4.72 checksums with 4.73 ones.
07 Jun 2000 20:57:18
obrien
Allow PKGDIR to be overridden by Netscape ports that thru various methods
eventually includes this file.
06 Jun 2000 22:25:07
will
Add MD5's for crypto-ified BSDI Netscape [Navigator,Communicator]. This is
required for the upcoming bsdi-netscape47-[navigator,communicator].us ports,
which are in the PR below.
01 Jun 2000 10:31:39
asami
Remove some empty directories. Also convert netscape4-navigator to use
wrapper.