Firefox-2.0.0.3 vs FC6?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Mar 23 17:35:58 UTC 2007


Kevin Kofler wrote:

>>> In which case you set up yum to *only* take firefox from Remi's repo, 
>>> and nothing else. Problem solved.
>> Right, sure, yes.....explain that to the clueless.
> 
> su -
> rpm -Uvh \
> http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch.rpm
> head -n 7 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new
> sed -i -e 's/enabled=[01]/enabled=1/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new
> echo 'includepkgs=firefox devhelp epiphany galeon gnome-python2-gtkmozembed '\
> 'gtkmozembedmm liferea yelp' >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new
> tail -n +8 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new
> echo 'includepkgs=firefox devhelp epiphany galeon gnome-python2-gtkmozembed '\
> 'gtkmozembedmm liferea yelp' >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new
> mv -f /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
> 
> This should be ready for copy&paste. :-) What this does:
> * installs remi-release
> * copies the [remi] (not [remi-test]) part of remi.repo to remi.repo.new
> * enables the repo
> * adds the includepkgs directive
> * appends the info for [remi-test], disabled by default
> * adds the includepkgs directive there too
> * moves the result back to remi.repo

Wow....that will *really* help the clueless.

You are joking, right?




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