mozilla-devel equivalent in fc6

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:32:46PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> I fI understood correctly seamonkey substituted mozilla in fc6.

More or less.  In particular it does not provide an executable
called 'mozilla' which may, or may not, be important to some
external packages.  Not that anything stops you from adding
your own script with that name which really execs seamonkey
with its own arguments.  You may have some binaries which insist
on running something with a specific "mozilla" name.

> What for the mozilla-devel package.

'seamonkey' packages from extras are "all-in-one" so this should
supply 'devel' part too and all other pieces; you want it or not.

As a matter of fact it would be pretty simple to create
"mozilla replacement" packages for FC6.  That would, in particular,
ensure that upgraded systems are not left with obsolete and
vulnerable mozilla versions.  It also would avoid a confusion like
yours.  I even posted here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207630#c1
a sample FC5 spec file for such packaging.  It may require minor
tweaks/improvements and for FC6 a trivial change on %files list
is needed (/etc/gre.d/gre.conf now belongs to 'firefox').

An owner of 'seamonkey' package does not want to acknowledge
issues and is not interested.  Shrug!

OTOH I do not understand why FC5 'mozilla' packages, with a long
list of known security vulnerabilities`, were not replaced months
ago by 'seamonkey' - the same style like in RHEL.  There are no
technical reasons AFAICS and I am running something like that for a
long time. Few other packages have to be recompiled too; like every
time when 'mozilla' update was showing up.

> I don't find a seamonkye-devel for include files...
> I would like to recompile democracy 0.9.1 while waiting for 0.9.2 and
> in spec file I have mozilla-devel as dependancy.

Produce your own seamonkey packages after you adjusted a spec from
URL above (results provide a "fake" mozilla-devel too and FC6 is
easier as other packages do not depend on mozilla or seamonkey) or
replace mozilla-devel dependency in your spec by seamonkey and hope
for the best.

   Michal