<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Michael Schwendt <<a href="mailto:mschwendt@gmail.com">mschwendt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:35:27 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:<br>
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> I've run been running Fedora since FC5 and I have never seen an<br>
> update problem like this before.<br>
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</div>Congratulations! ;o) This incident is just one of many. It has happened<br>
before several times, with Firefox and with other packages. Firefox<br>
affects almost everyone, though.<br>
<br>
Interestingly, for Fedora 8 there was an attempt at rebuilding all<br>
dependencies and publishing them at once, as a single update (see<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/firefox" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/firefox</a> ), and that has<br>
been done before. For F8, only one pkg slipped through (evolution-rss).<br>
For F9, only a few packages were rebuilt actually (as can be seen at above<br>
url, too).<br>
<br>
It's a workflow problem, a communication problem, a resource problem, and<br>
a policy problem.<br>
<br>
The firefox maintainer can't be blamed if other packages cause trouble<br>
because they create a strict dependency on a specific firefox<br>
version. Semi-automated rebuilds of dependencies might help, if the spec<br>
files were specially crafted to not require any manual editing at all (and<br>
in the case of a dependency on firefox would pick up the new firefox<br>
version automatically). Currently, however, a new package is not available<br>
in the builtroots unless it's pushed to the stable repo or release<br>
engineers add it on demand).<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Since I never install Firefox from Fedora, I install the tarball from the firefox web site, I guess I must have been lucky doing updates. Either that or my brain is choosing to forget the failures and remember the successes :-)<br>
<br>Paolo<br></div>