fedora-bookmarks

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:28:40AM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:12 -0500, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> > On 12/02/2010 09:32 AM, John J. McDonough wrote:
> > > Issuing:
> > > 
> > > sqlite3 places.sqlite "UPDATE moz_places SET
> > > url='http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html-single/Release_Notes/' WHERE url='http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/';"
> > > 
> > > will cause the bookmark in Firefox to point to the correct place.
> > 
> > Can this be done in an RPM?
> 
> I think it is technically possible, I'm less sure about how the RPM
> rulemakers would feel about it.

Bad.  Really, really bad.  RPM installations/updates must never tinker
with user data AFAIK.  The bookmarks package is only useful for new
users, and not for existing users.

Perhaps a way around this would be to offer a bookmark packet on a web
or wiki page that people could update if desired.

> > We should get the owner of the fedora-bookmarks package involved in this
> > conversation ASAP.  I would assume that the package for F15 is already
> > broken as well.
> 
> I added the basics of this dialog to the bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656737

Thanks for pursuing this.  I don't mean to be a wet blanket here --
the maintainer of course should be involved in the conversation.  Just
pitching in my experience.

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