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