Firefox on Fedora: No longer funny

[Kalev Lember]

On 10/11/2011 09:32 PM, Thomas Spura wrote:
> The main *BIG* difference is, that draft symlinks the extension
> *directory* and the script expects a install.rdf file below that.
> This means, the symlinking needs to happen one step below that, so that
> all files inside of the extension_id folder are symlinked, but the
> install.rdf still needs to be a real copy, so it can be opened at build
> time.
> 
> Rationale: A directory symlink can't be resolved at build time, so we
> cannot follow that symlink on build time.
> 
> When that's changed, the scripts are working fine along each other.

Could just use relative symlinks for the directories, so that they can
be resolved at build time.


> About "no dependency using" from above:
> 	The dependencies will be added automatic with the scripts, so
> 	to avoid pulling in e.g. seamonkey, when you only want to have
> 	the firefox extension, there need to be one package for each
> 	extension, which owns 
> 	/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/$browser_id/$extension_id.
> 
> This way e.g. firefox-$extension would automaticalls require the
> correct firefox versions but no seahorse, because that has to be owned
> by seahorse-$extension - just as an example, but it would make sense.

Yeah, I think there are two alternatives:
a) one big package and no requires on specific browsers,
b) split packages and each package requires a specific browser

My draft used (a), but either way would work.


> Kalev, does this make sense? Can this be integrated into the drafts?
> I'll try to add those macros proposed there
> into /usr/lib/rpm/macros.mozilla and see if they really work out.

Could you just fork my draft and amend it? I am not sure I am
sufficiently interested in properly finishing it up.


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Kalev