Mozilla 1.6 SRPM can be rebuilt for FC1

William M. Quarles quarlewm at jmu.edu
Mon Jul 26 22:55:43 UTC 2004


Clint Harshaw wrote:
> William M. Quarles wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Just thought I should let you know, since the Fedora Core project 
>> won't release Mozilla 1.6 to deal with all the bugs in Mozilla 1.4, 
>> you can rebuild the SRPM for Fedora Core 2 on a Fedora Core 1 system.  
>> It works well.
> 
> Another alternative that worked for me was to add the following entry to 
> my yum.conf:
> 
> [mozilla-seamonkey]
> name=Mozilla SeaMonkey Releases
> baseurl=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/yum/SeaMonkey/releases/1.6/redhat/1 

Yeah, but it's built for FC2.  Use at your own risk in that case.

I also modified the SRPM to fully optimize for i686.  The rebuild is on
my website, <http://physstud.jmu.edu/quarlewm/>.

--
Peace,
William





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