packaging thunderbird and firefox extensions as RPM in Fedora
Dan Young
dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us
Tue Apr 17 02:10:42 UTC 2007
Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> writes:
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>> 3.0. There's no maintainable way to make it work now without querying
>> RPM in %post and requiring triggers.
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> Why is firefox packaged in such a broken way (versioned dirs under
> /usr/lib)? I do not see any sense for such a layout on an rpm managed
> system.
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> Alternatively, why not create a
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> | /usr/lib*/firefox-<version>/extensions -> /usr/lib*/firefox/extensions
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> symlink and place extensions into the unversioned dir?
FWIW, strace says firefox does stat /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/ on startup.
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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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