Is xulrunner going to remove firefox in tomorrow's rawhide?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Sep 19 05:45:13 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 07:33 +0200, Martin Stransky wrote:
> Martin Sourada wrote:
> > This is the problem with broken deps (most of them will be solved just
> > by rebuild or with slight changes to their spec files or if they do not
> > have support for xulrunner yet then with some, mostly easy, patches),
> > but there is the problem with obsoletes, too. Because xulrunner
> > obsoletes firefox < 2.1, firefox will be removed during yum update,
> > won't it?
> 
> Both packages (firefox and xulrunner) provides gecko-libs and currently 
> can't be installed together.
> 
> I'll discus that with Chris Aillon next week (he's taking a vacation 
> this week), he's the original submitter of that feature and xulrunner owner.

Hey Martin,

I believe caillon is off until the end of the month (I could be wrong of
course). Anyway, you might want to try and catch him on irc earlier,
since we should try to get all the rebuilds against xulrunner done
before test3, ie before next Tuesday...

Kudos on getting it built, btw.




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