Add Palemoon browser

[louies0623]

Although there is Firefox available, but its interface and CPU power consumption are too bloated, and an easy-to-use and light browser is needed.

[probonopd]

Looks like the build is broken:

https://www.freshports.org/www/palemoon/

Users-Laptop% sudo pkg install palemoon
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'palemoon' have been found in the repositories

But https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=www%2Fpalemoon%24 doesn't say why.

Usually @grahamperrin is good in finding these things out.

[grahamperrin]

Using package build records at pkg-status.freebsd.org

[probonopd]

Thanks @grahamperrin but it doesn't seem to find anything for palemoon:

[grahamperrin]

From the guide:

2. in the Search field, enter the name of a jail

palemoon is not the name of a jail.

If, for example, you want a jail that relates to FreeBSD 13⋯, then your first two keystrokes can be:

13

[probonopd]

Got it. Even when following the instructions to the letter, I can't seem to find information on palemoon (presumably because there is no way to search across all builds on all builders)?

[grahamperrin]

A port-specific search across all would not yield meaningful results.

What's the name of the jail?

[probonopd]

I am looking for the reason why palemoon packages have not been built for almost all architectures and versions:
https://www.freshports.org/www/palemoon

So, almost all jails (except FreeBSD:11:aarch64 and FreeBSD:12:aarch64).

[grahamperrin]

Please name a single jail. The one that's of most interest.

Working through a focused example should help you, and other readers, to work through things in the future.

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https://www.freshports.org/www/palemoon

@louies0623 please observe the second line of the details:

Pictured on the tombstone, the letters RIP – rest in peace (requiescat in pace). See:

• https://www.freshports.org/faq.php#deleted.

[probonopd]

Oh wow. If the port has been deleted, this bears two questions:

• Why is there still a page on FreshPorts for it?
• What was the reason for deletion?

[grahamperrin]

With FreeBSD's search service, you can't tell whether a port existed before deletion:

• https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=palemoon&stype=name&sektion=www

• Why is there still a page on FreshPorts for it?

Information – including whether a port is deleted.

Occasionally, a port is revived. security/pam_fprint, for example:

1. at the beginning of the second line, click the version number to reveal history in reverse chronological order
2. uppermost, at the time of writing, is the revival
3. the preceding commit (below) was the removal.

[grahamperrin]

What was the reason for deletion?

At https://www.freshports.org/www/palemoon, click the version number to reveal the history.

This case is extraordinary.

Relevant information is within the bug report (251117) that is linked from within the first of the two commit messages that were logged on 15 Feb 2021. For convenience:

• https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=243622 is an A3 landscape PDF of the report, as it appeared before I created (and attached) the PDF.

[probonopd]

@louies0623 looking at that, it seems unlikely that Palemoon will be available for FreeBSD soon. Hence closing.

Thanks @grahamperrin for helping find the history.

[louies0623]

Thank you for your hard work. I may be too naive, but this is my idea. Using Appimage as the main source of downloading applications (sideloading) from the Internet means that all the software installed on the menu are appimage executable files, which will save a lot of adding Time to newly install software.

[probonopd]

Maybe there will be a Palemoon AppImage one day that can run on FreeBSD. It sure would be nice to have.