Re: Mozilla Firefox

[David]

On 5/2/2014 6:32 AM, poma wrote:
>  On 02.05.2014 11:50, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 May 2014 23:23:16 +0200, poma wrote:
> >
> >> # yum update --skip-broken
> >
> >> ---> Package mozldap.i686 0:6.0.5-11.fc20 will be installed
> >> --> Processing Dependency: svrcore >= 4.0.3 for package:
> mozldap-6.0.5-11.fc20.i686
> >
> > ---> Package svrcore.i686 0:4.0.4-10.fc20 will be installed
> >
> >> Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
> >>     firefox-29.0-5.fc21.i686 from rawhide
> >>     mozldap-6.0.5-11.fc20.i686 from rawhide
> >>     svrcore-4.0.4-10.fc20.i686 from rawhide
> >>     thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc21.i686 from rawhide
> >>     xulrunner-29.0-1.fc21.i686 from rawhide
> >
> >> Whether this sheds new light on the matter, maestro?
> >
> > Well, two of the packages (mozldap and svrcore) are not updates, but new
> > in the dependency-chain. It sounds plausible that Yum skips them, if a problem
> > with the updates is found. No need to add new packages for updates that
> > cannot be installed. And xulrunner is another provider of libxul.so*, but not
> > the one the thunderbird update wants. And there is some dependency between the
> > two packages, too:
> >
> >   # repoquery --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires xulrunner|grep ^th
> >   thunderbird-0:24.5.0-1.fc21.x86_64
> >
> >   # repoquery --exactdeps --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires xulrunner|grep ^th
> >   #
> >  
> > It could get more difficult for Yum --skip-broken to decide how independent
> > individual packages in the update transactions really are inspite of providing
> > the same things, such as various libxul.so*.
> >
>  
>  Thanks for the clarification.
>  So I guess, to exclude is the smart move here.
>  
>  # yum --exclude thunderbird update
>  Loaded plugins: langpacks
>  Resolving Dependencies
>  --> Running transaction check
>  ---> Package firefox.i686 0:28.0-3.fc21 will be updated
>  ---> Package firefox.i686 0:29.0-5.fc21 will be an update
>  ---> Package xulrunner.i686 0:27.0-1.fc21 will be updated
>  ---> Package xulrunner.i686 0:29.0-1.fc21 will be an update
>  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>  
>  Dependencies Resolved
>  
>  ================================================================================
>   Package            Arch          Version                Repository        Size
>  ================================================================================
>  Updating:
>   firefox            i686          29.0-5.fc21            rawhide           54 M
>   xulrunner          i686          29.0-1.fc21            rawhide           25 M
>  
>  Transaction Summary
>  ================================================================================
>  Upgrade  2 Packages
>  
>  Total size: 79 M
>  Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
>  Downloading packages:
>  Running transaction check
>  Running transaction test
>  Transaction test succeeded
>  Running transaction
>    Updating   : xulrunner-29.0-1.fc21.i686                                   1/4 
>    Updating   : firefox-29.0-5.fc21.i686                                     2/4 
>    Cleanup    : firefox-28.0-3.fc21.i686                                     3/4 
>    Cleanup    : xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.i686                                   4/4 
>    Verifying  : xulrunner-29.0-1.fc21.i686                                   1/4 
>    Verifying  : firefox-29.0-5.fc21.i686                                     2/4 
>    Verifying  : firefox-28.0-3.fc21.i686                                     3/4 
>    Verifying  : xulrunner-27.0-1.fc21.i686                                   4/4 
>  
>  Updated:
>    firefox.i686 0:29.0-5.fc21            xulrunner.i686 0:29.0-1.fc21           
>  
>  Complete!
>  
>  
>  poma 

That has been broken in Fedora for some time now. Just install/update
Thunderbird anyway. It works just fine using the Mozilla supplied.
libraries.

-- 

  David