Including RPM's for older versions of firefox (and other applications)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:38 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > Can we do better, by offering installs of older browsers that can be run
> > in parallel to make it easier to test browser based development?
> 
> If the .rpm is relocatable, then there is almost nothing to do:
> get the other .rpm and install it in a non-default place.
> If the .rpm is not relocatable, then there is almost nothing
> that _can_ be done.  From the beginning the upstream project and
> the packager must design for multiple concurrent installations and
> concurrent yet separate dynamic invocations, and _test_ them.

relocation in rpm is not support in yum and it is extremely unlikely to
EVER be supported in yum.

just as a caveat.

-sv