Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

[David]

On 10/11/2011 10:36 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Thomas Spura (tomspur at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>> If the required updates are due to version checks in the extensions,
>>> it might be possible to have RPM have a dependency generator that
>>> checks these and outputs the appropriate Requires/Conflicts lines,
>>> such that this could be easily caught by AutoQA.
>>
>> Generally speaking, could be possible (didn't look at other extensions).
>> I'll try to script somthing for the requires generation
>> like /usr/lib/rpm/pythondeps.sh. But it won't be possible to easily
>> generalize requires, it would be better to have Conflicts:
>>     <!-- Firefox -->
>>     <em:targetApplication>
>>       <Description>
>>       <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
>>       <em:minVersion>3.0</em:minVersion>
>>       <em:maxVersion>10.0a1</em:maxVersion>
>>       </Description>
>>     </em:targetApplication>
>> There isn't only firefox in that file, there are many browsers that
>> aren't available in fedora, so R: Flock>= 0.4 and R: Flock<= 2.0.*
>> would be never fulfilled -->  Choosing to conflict with all other
>> versions.
>> Would that be ok/sane?
>
> You'd want:
>
> Requires: firefox>= 3.0
> Conflicts: firefox>  10.0a1
>
> (You could do the first one as a conflicts, too, but since the package
> is already going to have a Requires: on firefox, might as well just version
> it.)


What you should use is:

Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.9.2

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api>

-- 

   David