Firefox 3 in Fedora 8?

[Mike Burger]

> John Thompson wrote:
>> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>
>> > Is that being planned at all? Or is F8 only supported in terms of
>> > security patches & such?
>>
>> I was able to compile FF-3.0.1 for 64-bit Fedora8 using the Fedora9
>> src.rpm and a little tweaking. If you want to try them:
>>
>> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
>> http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/RPMS/firefox-3.0.1-1.fc8.src.rpm
>>
>>
> Why use the rpm's at all?  Why not just get it from Mozilla?  If you
> want the latest you need to do that anyway.

FWIW, it's just as easy to get the SRPM for F9, and rpmbuild it on F8,
which is what I've been doing.

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