On 06/23/2005 06:00 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Is it possible to create rpm packages of thunderbird and firefox
extensions? I'd like to install some global extensions on each of our
machines and I'd prefer to have rpms, but not sure how it would interact
with or replace the -install-global-extension option. Perhaps
fedora-packaging is a better place to ask?
Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? Not really, due to the way that the
extension manager works in Firefox 1.0 -- the extension manager in
Firefox 1.1 is much nicer and works better with Linux. I also don't
provide devel packages for either because of some packaging conflict
issues with the mozilla package, so it is slightly more difficult as well.
I'm actually working on packaging up Deer Park Alpha 1, which is a very
early alpha release of Firefox 1.1, which should hit rawhide soon. I
will also get preview builds of xulrunner which should help to alleviate
this problem. I hope the situation will be much nicer for FC5.
It might be nice for fedora extras to be able to provide extensions as
well.
Sure, I would hope that once our picture is better, we get a lot of
extensions in Extras.