yum module idea: force-install high-priority updates

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:59:10 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:

> > Op donderdag 09-11-2006 om 08:36 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Naoki:
> > > In this specific case I'd be wondering why liferea needs a very specific
> > > version of firefox. I just checked the app in question and it states a
> > > requirement of :
> > > firefox = 1.5.0.7
> >
> > I'm not familiar with liferea, but I am a developer of a application
> > which uses GtkEmbedMoz, an GTK firefox embedding widget and I think
> > liferea is in the same situation as I am.
> >
> > The problem is that each version of Mozilla/Firefox uses a
> > different installation prefix. For Firefox 1.5.0.7 this
> > is /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7
> >
> > When a application links with some Mozilla/Firefox library
> > the full path gets saved in the final executable.
> >
> In case of liferea, the dependency is not actually that hard-coded.

It is, it is.

This has been the result of discussion in an upstream bug ticket.

> liferea uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add Firefox's installation directory
> before calling the actual liferea-bin binary. This path is detected at
> build time and hardcoded into the script.

It used to be like this, but has been error-prone (leading to
crashes, even) and has changed to a really hardcoded path in the
binary.