trying to build rpm for google gears

[David Van Assche]

Hi Ville-Pekka Vainio,
   It does indeed. A thousand thanks...

I've managed to compile the build from an subversion source on both Fedora
and Ubuntu now, and looking at the files, there are way more in the build
than there are in an unzipped gears.xpi. But I'm sure I've got enough to
work on now. The XO browser (called browse) is actually very closely related
to Firefox 3 (and uses XULRunner 1.9) so using its id as u mention should
work...

Thanks,
David Van Assche

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio <vpivaini at cs.helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> David Van Assche wrote:
> > It
> > was suggested to me that I should post here to see if someone doesn't
> have
> > some suggestions on building an rpm for mozilla (xulrunner 1.9) based
> > extensions...
> >    I am aware that gears is normally packaed as a .xpi, but that wont
> work
> > for the XO laptops... it must be a rpm that I can install system wide
> from
> > the command line.
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know that much about Xulrunner and even less about the OLPC
> software
> stack, but I have packaged one xulrunner-based Firefox extension, which is
> currently under review. The spec file is at
> <http://vpv.fedorapeople.org/packages/mozvoikko/mozvoikko.spec>.
>
> >From the website I understood that Google Gears is a Firefox extension on
> the
> client side. Does the OLPC actually use Firefox or some other Mozilla based
> browser?
>
> The .xpi file is basically "just" a renamed zip file, so you need to
> extract
> it and then install the files to the "correct" location, which depends on
> the
> browser used. In the case of the mozvoikko extension I
> use %{_libdir}/mozilla/extensions/%{firefox_app_id}/%{firefox_ext_id},
> where %{firefox_app_id} is ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384 (Firefox's
> ID) and %{firefox_ext_id} is the ID of the extension (ok, the naming is a
> bit
> misleading here ;). I hope this helps, at least a little.
>
>
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