On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Jon Peatfield wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> > 
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone already looking at this, and of so is there anything I can do
> > > > to
> > > >  help?
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, I did for our CERN update, here are the changes needed:
> > >
> > > 1. in SOURCES/firefox-mozconfig*:
> > >
> > > change --enable-pango to --disable-pango
> > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to decide if upgrading to a new-enough pango would be better
> > (e.g. lifting the pango-1.6 from SL4x).  Given that ffox 1.0.8 is linked
> > against the pango 1.2 in SL3 I don't know if users will object to losing
> > internationalized text support...
> > 
> > What (if any) functionality does one actually lose by disabling pango?

My test build seems to not allow using any language but english in the 
user interface. International *content* still displays fine, as visits 
to pravda.ru, spiegel.de and aljazeera.net prove.

> > > 2. in firefox.spec:
> > >
> > >  change desktop-utils define from 0.9 to 0.3,
> > >  comment out scripts in post and postun sections.
> > >  change requires to freetype-devel >= 2.1.4
> > >  change requires to XFree86-devel instead of xorg-x11-devel
> > 
> > 
> > Yup those look like what I just started with (based on the previous changes
> > for ffox 1.0.8)...
> > 
> > I guess that somewhere there are some 'default' bookmarks/homepages to be
> > hacked as well to remove any references to the Vendor... 
> 
> SOURCES/firefox-redhat-default-bookmarks.html
> 
> Troy
> 

Did anyone else observe firefox starting with a splash screen and a 
(rather slow) progress bar about "checking for compatibility updates for 
your extensions"? Of course there are no extensions installed, and XPI
installs as well as automatic checks for updates are disabled and 
locked...

Troy, anyway, I've been feeling increasingly uneasy about the security 
situation regarding firefox for weeks now. Are you going to provide an 
"official SL" backport of 1.5 to SL3, and if, is there an ETA? I wouldn't 
care if there were rough edges left. If you say you can't do this anytime 
soon, I'd probably roll out my own build (and: yes, I'd be willing to 
share it with the other SL folks, and: no, I couldn't provide any support 
for it), or maybe the CERN packages [Jarek, is there any reason why I 
would not want to do this?], or even the binary from mozilla.org.

Just in case it may help (I'm quite sure you don't need it, but who 
knows), I've put up the spec for my test build here:

  http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/firefox-SL.spec

No input files were changed except the spec and Source12 (the default 
bookmarks).

Cheers,
	Stephan

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