Jon Peatfield wrote:
> I see that TUV have decided to jump up to firefox 3.6.4 for the latest 
> security update - and this seems to come with a bunch of other package 
> updates...
> 
>   SRPMS:
>    devhelp-0.12-21.el5.src.rpm
>    esc-1.1.0-12.el5.src.rpm
>    firefox-3.6.4-8.el5.src.rpm
>    gnome-python2-extras-2.14.2-7.el5.src.rpm
>    totem-2.16.7-7.el5.src.rpm
>    xulrunner-1.9.2.4-9.el5.src.rpm
>    yelp-2.16.0-26.el5.src.rpm
> 
> Does anyone yet know if these updates will then require many of the sl55 
> updates?
> 
> [ I'm asking 'cos we arn't yet ready to update our machines to sl55 but I 
> suspect that our users will be wanting the 'new' firefox pretty much as 
> soon as they know about it... ]
> 

I have tested all of these updates, and they all go in cleanly on a SL 
5.0 machine (both i386 and x86_64) without any extra packages beyond the 
ones listed above.

The same goes for the firefox update on SL4, I have tested it on a SL 
4.0 machine, goes on with no extra updates needed.

Troy
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