On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> 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 

Red Hat just released the 1.5.x for RHEL 4 a few hours ago.

-Connie Sieh
> 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
> 
>