seamonkey replaces mozilla?

[Lonni J Friedman]

>From what I experienced last week, seamonkey does replace mozilla in
FC5, and the upgrade path is seemless.  You continue to run 'mozilla'
but you get seamonkey instead.

On 1/9/07, Steve Siegfried <sos at zjod.net> wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> This may be re-ringing the same bell, but is seamonkey replacing mozilla?
>
> If so, at least in FC5, if you've already got mozilla and friends
> installed, then there doesn't appear to be any upgrade path that doesn't
> require deleting mozilla and friends before adding seamonkey.  And from
> what I can tell, if you do have mozilla and friends already installed,
> you can't get there from here.
>
> In FC5 for example, I've already got installed:
>      mozilla-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>      mozilla-chat-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>      mozilla-devel-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>      mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>      mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>      mozilla-mail-1.7.13-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>
>
> So trying to install the latest stuff (via yum extender output) I see
> stuff like:
>      ROOT:root=> yumex
>      Mirrordetection : default
>      Yum Version : 2.6.1 (/usr/share/yum-cli)
>      /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py:454: DeprecationWarning: getConfigOption() will go away in a future version of Yum.
>      Please access option values as attributes or using getattr().
>        DeprecationWarning)
>      Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>      Repository initialization completed in 32.77 seconds
>      Preparing for install/remove/update
>      --> Preparing for install
>      --> Preparing for remove
>      --> Preparing for a partial update
>      --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>      ---> Package yelp.i386 0:2.14.3-3.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package epiphany.i386 0:2.14.3-3.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package devhelp.i386 0:0.11-5.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package epiphany-devel.i386 0:2.14.3-3.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package devhelp-devel.i386 0:0.11-5.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package liferea.i386 0:1.0.24-2.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package galeon.i386 0:2.0.3-2.fc5 set to be updated
>      --> Running transaction check
>      --> Processing Dependency: libxpcom_core.so for package: epiphany
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey >= 1.0.7 for package: yelp
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey = 1.0.7 for package: liferea
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey = 1.0.7 for package: epiphany
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey = 1.0.7 for package: devhelp
>      --> Processing Dependency: libxpcom_core.so for package: yelp
>      --> Processing Dependency: libxpcom_core.so for package: galeon
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey-devel >= 1.0.7 for package: epiphany-devel
>      --> Processing Dependency: seamonkey = 1.0.7 for package: galeon
>      --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
>      --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>      ---> Package seamonkey-devel.i386 0:1.0.7-0.6.fc5 set to be updated
>      ---> Package seamonkey.i386 0:1.0.7-0.6.fc5 set to be updated
>      --> Running transaction check
>      --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13-1.1.fc5 for package: mozilla-js-debugger
>      --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13-1.1.fc5 for package: mozilla-mail
>      --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13-1.1.fc5 for package: mozilla-dom-inspector
>      --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.13-1.1.fc5 for package: mozilla-chat
>      --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>
> But... when I test removing mozilla and friends via "rpm --test -e",
> I get a ton of "XXX is needed by (installed) YYY" errors, some of which
> (like gnome-python2-gtkmozembed, libswt3-gtk2, conglomerate and gecko-sharp2)
> can't be re-installed because there aren't seamonkey compatible replacements
> available.
>
> So unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a clean upgrade
> path from mozilla and friends to seamonkey and friends.
>
> Suggestions are welcome at this point.
>
> -S
>
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