fedora-bookmarks

[Ian Weller]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:41:11AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:28:40AM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:12 -0500, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> > > On 12/02/2010 09:32 AM, John J. McDonough wrote:
> > > > Issuing:
> > > > 
> > > > sqlite3 places.sqlite "UPDATE moz_places SET
> > > > url='http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html-single/Release_Notes/' WHERE url='http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/';"
> > > > 
> > > > will cause the bookmark in Firefox to point to the correct place.
> > > 
> > > Can this be done in an RPM?
> > 
> > I think it is technically possible, I'm less sure about how the RPM
> > rulemakers would feel about it.
> 
> Bad.  Really, really bad.  RPM installations/updates must never tinker
> with user data AFAIK.  The bookmarks package is only useful for new
> users, and not for existing users.

This. (I was actually cringing while reading the rest of this thread.
Call me insane.)

Is there anything technically limiting us from setting up the bad URL as
a page listing various release notes versions/languages, or at least
redirecting to the latest version?

-- 
Ian Weller <ian at ianweller.org>
Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/attachments/20101202/5ec4cc44/attachment.bin