[opensuse] Why does Firefox obsolete Seamonkey?
Hi, we are fetching the latest Firefox an Seamonkey packages from /repositories/mozilla/SLE_10/ Don't know at which release this started, but currently we cannot have Firefox and seamonkey installed in parallel because Firefox obsoletes "mozilla" and seamonkey provides this. This happens e.g. with seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.14. Is there a special reason why we should not be allowed to install Firefox and seamonkey at the same time? Any way to circumvent it? We have a lot of users who still want an integrated suite like seamonkey... cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Frank Steiner wrote:
Hi,
we are fetching the latest Firefox an Seamonkey packages from /repositories/mozilla/SLE_10/ Don't know at which release this started, but currently we cannot have Firefox and seamonkey installed in parallel because Firefox obsoletes "mozilla" and seamonkey provides this.
This happens e.g. with seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Is there a special reason why we should not be allowed to install Firefox and seamonkey at the same time? Any way to circumvent it? We have a lot of users who still want an integrated suite like seamonkey...
Just download seamonkey installer and install to /opt. It's 100% self-contained (no reliance on anytyhing other than the standard X libraries), and everything installs into one directory tree (which means that a simple rm -rf can get rid of it). The network installer is small (downloads in seconds), and running the installer takes all of a few more seconds.
P.P.S And another thing... Now let me get this straight. Bill Clinton is getting $12 Million for his memoirs. His wife Hillary got $8 million for hers. That's $20 million for memories from two people, who for eight years repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.
Yes, but she *DOES* remember going to Bosnia, and the transport plane doing a "corkscrew landing" and then running for cover because of the "sniper fire"....even though everyone else on the trip remembers an uneventful flight, and the news camera footage shows a short "welcome to Bosnia" ceremonia out in the middle of the airfield.... Must have been her visits to that special parallel universe that left-wingers seem to inhabit...where the rules of economics are completely different from those here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Frank Steiner wrote:
we are fetching the latest Firefox an Seamonkey packages from /repositories/mozilla/SLE_10/ Don't know at which release this started, but currently we cannot have Firefox and seamonkey installed in parallel because Firefox obsoletes "mozilla" and seamonkey provides this.
This happens e.g. with seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Is there a special reason why we should not be allowed to install Firefox and seamonkey at the same time? Any way to circumvent it? We have a lot of users who still want an integrated suite like seamonkey...
Thanks for the report first of all ;-) That only happens on SLE10 because - on upgrades from SLES9 to SLES10 Firefox should replace mozilla - on upgrades of openSUSE seamonkey should replace mozilla So in case of SLE10 they are both obsoleting mozilla while seamonkey provides it which causes the wrong behaviour in your case. I just committed a fix (which hopefully works) to seamonkey and MozillaFirefox packages in the mozilla repository. Please try when the new releases are built. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote
Thanks for the report first of all ;-) That only happens on SLE10 because - on upgrades from SLES9 to SLES10 Firefox should replace mozilla - on upgrades of openSUSE seamonkey should replace mozilla So in case of SLE10 they are both obsoleting mozilla while seamonkey provides it which causes the wrong behaviour in your case.
Ok, that explains it :-)
I just committed a fix (which hopefully works) to seamonkey and MozillaFirefox packages in the mozilla repository. Please try when the new releases are built.
Great! Thanks a lot! -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote
I just committed a fix (which hopefully works) to seamonkey and
Yes, works :-) Thanks! -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Frank Steiner
Hi,
we are fetching the latest Firefox an Seamonkey packages from /repositories/mozilla/SLE_10/ Don't know at which release this started, but currently we cannot have Firefox and seamonkey installed in parallel because Firefox obsoletes "mozilla" and seamonkey provides this.
This happens e.g. with seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Is there a special reason why we should not be allowed to install Firefox and seamonkey at the same time? Any way to circumvent it? We have a lot of users who still want an integrated suite like seamonkey...
Mmh - that looks like some kind of bug, please file a bug in bugzilla against the build service, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Frank Steiner wrote:
Hi,
we are fetching the latest Firefox an Seamonkey packages from /repositories/mozilla/SLE_10/ Don't know at which release this started, but currently we cannot have Firefox and seamonkey installed in parallel because Firefox obsoletes "mozilla" and seamonkey provides this.
This happens e.g. with seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Is there a special reason why we should not be allowed to install Firefox and seamonkey at the same time? Any way to circumvent it? We have a lot of users who still want an integrated suite like seamonkey...
cu, Frank
I currently have Seamonkey 1.1.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.13 and no problems. I haven't seen Firefox .14 yet. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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