Jim Flanagan wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2008 16:43:32 Jim Flanagan wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
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For 10.3 you can use
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_10.3/
as a repository for it
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When you install Firefox 3.0 from this repo, how are ongoing security updates handled? Does Yast and YOU push out updates, or we one check the repo manually from time to time for updates?
The online update won't look at it, because there are no patchinfo files, so you have to check it yourself manually
Just do "zypper lu -t package" to see what's available across all your repos, or, to just get the updates from one repository, do "zypper lu -t package -r <repository number>" where the number is the one listed on the left when you do "zypper sl"
Or do it through the YaST GUI :)
Anders
I suspected as much. Thanks for clearing this up. In the case of Firefox, checking the repo manually is normally not a problem. So many other machines get firefox updates I usually know when one is out. This may not be the case for smaller less used packages. I any case I know what to do now.
Does anyone know if opensuse plans on adding Firefox 3 to opensse 10.3, or leaving it at 2.x?
Jim
Jim, read the very beginning of the msg you replied to (or the top of this msg) :-) .
Ciao.
Hi Basil,
I believe I read the messages, but perhaps I missed something. My last question was not about updates for now, I understand that if I'm using 10.3 and update to Firefox 3 from the opensuse/mozilla repo, I will have to keep checking that repo periodically for updates. Understood. What my last question was does anyone know if opensuse plans on upgrading their base Firefox package from 2.x to 3.x for 10.3 in the coming months, similar to what they did from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0 on Suse 10.0 eventually (although that was due to security issues IIRC).
Sorry Jim, but you have me absolutely confused :-) . If you are running 10.3 and are using the version of FF installed by openSUSE (ie, not a "roll-your-own" downloaded from Mozilla.org) and you have YaST2 setup up to do your upgrades, or have smart setup to do same, then -- as is indicated in the text above as written by someone other than me -- you will have your FF upgraded by YaST2 (or whatever) with openSUSE 10.3 installed. If you are asking, indirectly, if FF will continue to be upgraded while you are running openSUSE 10.3 then as far as I know the answer is YES. It is openSUSE v10.0 which has ceased to be supported as announced recently (?3 months ago?). Ciao. -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org