Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (505 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 09.07.2011 12:58, schrieb Felix Miata:
> One might think this belongs in some other list because AFAICT FF3.6 is
> no longer available in 12.1. Nevertheless, those with the knowledge and
> the power to do anything should more likely see this than some post
> elsewhere.
>
> How is subject possible? I strongly object to UI changes that came about
> in FF4, and so enable the Mozilla repo and 'zypper al
> mozilla-xulrunner20 mozilla-js20' in 11.3, 11.4 & Tumbleweeds to prevent
> installation of FF post-3.6. This worked until about yesterday. Now FF5
> installs anyway. How is one supposed to keep getting automatic upgrades
> from the 3.6 branch if locking out dep 20s doesn't work? 

I don't know because I don't know enough about zypp. AFAIK zypper will
always select the newest version of a package unless you ask for a
specific version-release.

> Are required js
> and xulrunner now built into FF5 instead of it using support packages,
> like a static build?

Yes. The reason for doing the xulrunner split was that we had xulrunner
anyway for embedding reasons and Firefox was using the same one. Now
with the new fast release strategy for Firefox it's not possible to keep
a xulrunner version updated every six weeks and break dependent packages
all the time. So the split was reverted and Firefox is fully standalone
besides NSPR and NSS requirements.

> Also, shouldn't dup be required instead of up to get 3.6 branch replaced
> by 5.0 branch?

No, it's the same package with a higher version number. While I keep
older versions alive in the same repository I have no real idea how to
make sure that newer versions are not chosen for update automatically.

This is more a package manager issue.


Wolfgang
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