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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:21:31 -0500
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Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> Since I haven't heard any real negative feedback from anyone, I am 
>> assuming that the firefox's I posted is going to work.
> 
> Apologies for the lack of feedback earlier.  I got distracted by a 
> 'broken' samba config and a printer needing to be moved ~0.5 miles...
> 
> Can we have a %changelog entry to show (roughly) what was done from the 
> Vendors version?
> 
>> I now have my finished rpm's based on a combination of both Jarek and 
>> Stephan's spec files.  It makes the changes that Jarek said, so it's 
>> basically like firefox-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.1, but instead of changing the 
>> files directly, all the changes are in the spec file using the 'sed' 
>> command that Stephan did.
>> I also have the recompiled thunderbird, with the thunderbird.desktop fix.
>>
>> I would like people to test them and give me a thumbs up or down.  If 
>> everything is ok, I'd like to get them into errata tomorrow or friday.
>>
>> Firefox:
>> i386
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/firefox/firefox-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.3.i386.rpm 
>>
> 
> This one has the old dependency on 'desktop-file-utils >= 0.9'
> 
> Diffing the specs from -1 and -3 (since they seem to have the smaller 
> diff) I see:
> 

Ugg ... yep ... and that's why I want them tested.
Thanks for that

> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  %define indexhtml file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
> -%define desktop_file_utils_version 0.3
> +%define desktop_file_utils_version 0.9
> +%define distro SL3
> 
>  %define official_branding 1
>  ExcludeArch: ppc64
> @@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
>  Summary:        Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
>  Name:           firefox
>  Version:        1.5.0.5
> -Release:        0.SL3.1
> +Release:        0.%{distro}.3
>  Epoch:          0
>  URL:            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
>  License:        MPL/LGPL
> @@ -21,7 +22,7 @@
>  Source2:        firefox-langpacks-%{version}-20060726.tar.bz2
>  Source10:       firefox-mozconfig
>  Source11:       firefox-mozconfig-branded
> -Source12:       firefox-redhat-default-bookmarks.html
> +Source12:       firefox-%{distro}-default-bookmarks.html
>  Source13:       firefox-redhat-default-prefs.js
>  Source20:       firefox.desktop
>  Source21:       firefox.sh.in
> ...
> <snip>
> 
> which all looks good apart from the 0.9... (actually I'd leave the 
> original bookmarks file in as well but that is just me :-)
> 
> Oh can we have ubuntu.com added to the Distros in the default bookmarks 
> please?  I get enough complaints from ubuntu users already... :-)
> 

Well, since I have to recompile, sure thing.  Anybody else have any? 
Speak within 20 minutes.

> Ignoring that dependency, firefix installs and seems to run.  I've not 
> yet tested what will need changing (from the 1.0.8 setup) for our 
> hackery to tweak the default config (tweaking the home, and altering the 
> basic settings etc)...
> 
> I'll try to have more news shortly.
> 
> <snip>
>> Thunderbird:
>> i386
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/thunderbird/thunderbird-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.1.i386.rpm 
>>
> 
> That doesn't have the %post, %postun scriptlets commented out so on 
> installing I get:
> 
> ...
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.89937: line 1: update-desktop-database: command not found
> error: %post(thunderbird-1.5.0.5-0.SL3.1) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
> 

Oh ... they didn't used to have those ... I'll put that in ... er ... I 
mean I'll comment them out.

> Apart from the error tbird seems to install and a trivial test worked. 
> I'm about to test if I can install a GB speeling dictionary (probably a 
> different one than 1.0.8 needed...)
> 
>  -- Jon

Troy
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