Feature changed by: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) Feature #311163, revision 7 Title: packaging firefox add-ons Hackweek VI: Implementation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We lack a way to be able to easily package firefox add-ons as rpm. Packages of add-ons are useful both for the distro vendor and for admins. Distro (or appliance) vendors may install some add-ons by default. Admins want all users to have certain add-ons by default. Moreover some add-ons are not noarch (like bonjourfoxy) and need to be compiled specifically for each distro so a package is unavoidable. To make all of that possible the firefox package needs to provide rpm macros so spec files for add-ons become really simple. By creating a script that downloads version, description etc from addons.mozilla.org and automatically creates spec files the task of packaging add-ons becomes a piece of cake. See home:lnussel:firefox (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Alnussel% 3Afirefox) for current status. Discussion: #1: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2011-01-26 18:01:27) There are already some (12 ?) addons packed in "lnussel" 's home repository - cool!I do not really know the difference from "Implementation" to status: "Done" here (additonal testing?). All the best pistazienfresser P.S.: Hope I am not too bold if I 'misuse' this openFATE thread a bit for connected features:On my included-in-trustfull-repository-firefox- addon-wishlist would be also: - DownThemAll! Because of the automatic use of Checksums if you are using Metalinks with Firefox and DownThemAll!: * http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Metalink#Checksums * http://software.opensuse.org - Maybe there is also some good working, FOSS/FLOSS , cross-browser-working , secrue addon to sync bookmarks and so on (but there may be just not an openSource addon for that porpose ;- ( compare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_synchronizers ) #2: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2011-01-28 15:31:51) (reply to #1) I consider the feature done if Wolfgang accepts my submit requests for changes to the firefox package. I've added downthemall to the collection. What's desperately missing though is a way to get notified about updated add-ons. + #3: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2011-01-31 21:12:59) (reply to + #2) + > I've added downthemall to the collection. Thanks. I have added it to my + fireox 4.0b in 11.4 factory-tested and have successfully downloaded + Milestone 6 using Metalink 4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311163