firefox: '1.9b3pre' is not compatible with 1.9b5pre

[Christopher Aillon]

On 03/09/2008 12:35 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> On 03/08/2008 09:23 PM, sean darcy wrote:
>>> On rawhide, updated today:
>>
>> You update infrequently if you're just now seeing this a month after 
>> the fact.
>>
>>> rpm -q firefox
>>> firefox-3.0-0.beta4.35.nightly20080306.fc9.i386
>>>
>>> firefox
>>> Error: Platform version '1.9b3pre' is not compatible with
>>> minVersion >= 1.9b5pre
>>> maxVersion <= 1.9b5pre
>>
>> Discussed many times on list(s) and in the bug with alias 
>> 'xulrunner-cpio' (if memory serves it's 433096 or 430096 or something 
>> like that).
> 
> I've gone back over the list headers since the Alpha 9 release. I don't 
> see anything obviously relevant. I also googled.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433096 deals with the 
> unpacking of the nightly xulrunner package. But yum installs xulrunner 
> just fine. I've missed how that's relevant.
> 
> I've now looked over the xulrunner bugs, but none seems relevant.
>>
>> For future reference, please note that xulrunner is the important 
>> package for firefox, and any bug report for firefox without including 
>> the xulrunner version is largely useless.
>>
> 
> OK. I thought there might be something other than firefox, which is why 
> I said I'd upgraded to yesterday's rawhide. Without being involved in 
> each of the packages, it's hard to keep up with the dependencies.
> 
> In any event, have I misconfigured something, or is this some bug in 
> firefox/xulrunner?

I'm pretty sure that it's the xulrunner-cpio bug, but in the case it's 
not, you might be using mismatched bitness of firefox vs xulrunner. 
They both need to be i386 or x86_64.

Either way,

rpm -e --nodeps xulrunner
yum install xulrunner.i386

should fix it.