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 > >