yum module idea: force-install high-priority updates

[Michel Salim]

On 11/9/06, Michael Schwendt <fedora at wir-sind-cool.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
My mystake, then. The ones in Extras still use the script, and ldd-ing
the actual binary did not show a dependency on Firefox.

-- 
Michel Salim

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