Re: Updating from non RPM (Firefox 1.0.4)
From: David W Studeman (eat_your_own_spam_at_hormel.com)
Date: 05/21/05
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:47:13 -0700
AnonymousFC3 wrote:
> Hello:
> SUSE has a hard time to release RPM's fast enough for new updates of
> Firefox... and other applications.
> Uninstalling MozillaFireFox is a problem because of dependencies.
> RPM's can be a pain.
>
> Now: How could we "decouple" FireFox, and install it from the Mozilla web
> site?
>
> A few approaches are possible:
>
> 1) Minimalist: Mozilla release a list of the _only files_ which need to be
> changed (work only with previous version).
> We could replace them manually... cumbersome but this could be automated.
>
> 2) Maximalist:
> We delete Firefox, and let YAST resolve dependencies. (Probably works).
> And use the Mozilla install to reinstall Firefox somewhere else.
>
> 3) My favorite, would be for Mozilla (or other apps) , to release Firefox
> in a form which allows easy and automated creation of either an RPM, or
> debian style package. This may already exist, because it sounds so
> logical.... Then for Suse using the previous specification file, should do
> the job to quickly create an RPM.
>
> 4) Some apps, have been release as a single RPM which works on many
> Linuxes, looks ideal, but, nothing being free, it comes at the cost of
> duplicating some files.
>
> 5) Creating RPM's from tarzipped files has been working and does not seems
> to work so well anymore: "checkinstall", I like the concept though.
>
> Large applications, (Mozilla, OpenOffice, Nvidia drivers, etc...) with
> frequent (worthwile) updates beg for a solution.
>
> Ideas, suggestions?
> - AFC3 -
Of course, 1.04 is also in You as a security update and it is newer than the
project file which I had installed previously.
-- Dave
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