Rount 1 - i386.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/firefox/firefox-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.1.i386.rpm

This is using Jarek's spec's, with changes in SOURCES/firefox-mozconfig
The source rpm and x86_64 rpm will be up in about an hour and a half.

I am currently rebuilding firefox using Stephan's spec file, without 
SOURCES/firefox-mozconfig changed.  Rebuild's take about 2 1/2 on the 
machine (It was fast for it's time), so expect about 3 hours for the 
i386 version.

I will post when that is ready.  It will be firefox-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.2.i386.rpm

Troy

Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>  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).
>>>
>>
>> First answer
>> Yes, we plan on backporting the firefox 1.5.x to S.L. 3.0.x.
>> We do not plan on pushing it right out into the mainstream errata 
>> because this is a major change.  It will go into the 30rolling, or 
>> maybe the 30rolling/testing area.  We want people to be able to have 
>> access to them and test them out.
> 
> 
> I'll put the test (i386) versions on a couple of boxes for some (light) 
> testing once I know where to pull them from...
> 
> I can't see an obvious 30rolling/testing area or I couldn't 10 mins ago 
> anyway.  Did it just get created?
> 
> Anyway I still need to re-work some of my post-install hacks to cope 
> with having seamonkey instead of mozilla...
> 
>> I already have the i386 version done, based on Jarek's changes.  The 
>> only variation is he didn't mention changing the bookmarks, which I 
>> have done.
>>
>> I am a little supprised that people are having problem with Pango, 
>> because for the older backports (firefox 1.0.x) we pulled the pango 
>> patches out, and nobody complained about those.  But, as has been 
>> said, this is a major change.
> 
> 
> For firefox 1.0.x (1.0.8 at least) the specfile had pango-related 
> *patches* commented out, but was still linked against the SL3 pango 
> (1.2.x).  [ The patches required a newer version of pango (I think!) ].
> 
> Disabling pango might cause problems for some (e.g. Far-Eastern) text, 
> or it might be that ffox just uses it's own routines if pango is 
> unavailable or disabled.
> 
> Firefox 1.5.x seems to need a newer version of pango than SL3 comes with.
> 
>> I am not against making another compile of the firefox with your 
>> (Stephan) spec file, and put it up to let people see if it fixes or 
>> breaks anything. If we don't have to change the firefox-mozconfig file 
>> that would be nice, one less change we have to worry about.
> 
> 
> The specfile mentioned above says:
> 
>  * Sat Jul 29 2006 Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> - 
> 1.5.0.5-0.SL3.1
>  - made it build and install on SL3 (no pango)
>  - replaced default bookmarks with SL ones
> 
> so I'd assume that it *is* disabling pango too...
> 
> I'd certainly be happy with a pango-less version initially (hey most of 
> the world just uses iso-8859-1 anyway!!) though if that annoys lots of 
> people it might be worth re-visiting later...
> 
>  -- Jon


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