On Tuesday 12 February 2008 01:50:41 am Basil Chupin wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 11 February 2008 08:59:05 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[02-11-08 22:49]: I don't understand what you mean by "unmanaged"?
If you mean that there is no Suse around to hold your hand in keeping the FF installation going then you need not worry! FF updates itself when Mozilla releases a new upgrade/update/whatever you want to call it. Also, any addons auto-date as well.
But doesn't include the enhancements provided by the openSUSE packagers :^(
OK, I'll bite!
What 'enhancements' are provided by openSUSE?
(I can see your tongue-in-cheek :-) .)
Stupid question - but...
..if you wanted to roll your own version of software_x, and still have it in the package management system, then couldn't one compile said software and then use checkinstall to create an RPM?
Then if an update comes out wouldn't that then work nice with the<insert distro here> package management system?
Aaargh!
Kai, my sincere apologies for my earlier response.
I misread what you wrote and took it the wrong way.
Again, my sincere apologies.
LOL! I've been on usenet (and the interweb in general) long enough to see how questions can be misinterpreted. No problems.
Yes, I guess what you stated in your response is correct. One could roll an RPM from a tarball from Mozilla.org and install it.
Only difference is that the tarball would need to be somehow altered to make it install in the default location where openSUSE normally installs FF.
Ok, valid point. <Insert Distro Here> may install to a different location than would the software's original owner.
I always simply untar the tarball and "install" (ie, replace the /mozilla directory ) FF in my home directory - because I am the only user of my system. What one would need to do to have it available for multiple users of the OS I cannot say.
Oh, that's a cool idea. I had done this when FF 2.0beta was out so I could run 1.x supplied from openSUSE and 2.x from the beta without them interfering. Cool idea. I think maybe I'll look into this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org