[gobolinux-users] Re: Firefox up to date

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 8/2/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> 2006/8/1, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se>:
> > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:05:14 +0200, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> >
> > > "Jonas Karlsson" <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > >> brought up and people seem to want the "Community edition" of firefox
> > >> I've "fixed" (just as with a pet ;) ) the recipe and created a package
> > >> from the same. [...]
> > >>
> http://karlsson.sytes.net/gobolinux/RecipeStore/Firefox--1.5.0.5--recipe.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > Thanks!  This looks closer than my old FireWeb recipe, but it seems
> > > to want half of Gnome installed.  Is that necessary?
> > >
> > Sorry. Forgot to check what dependencies that was pulled in and since I
> > have (almost) an entire Gnome installation I guess one should expect
> > something like that. I don't think it's necessary and I'll look into it.
> >
> Ok, I've stripped the Dependencies file now. The new recipe and
> package are awailable at the same locations as before.

A quick report. I tried the package and the recipe.

Package: I had some problems with the package signature (but I noticed
you've been committing fixes to that part in CVS, didn't try again
after that) but after I symlinked it at hand and installed libidl, it
worked.
Recipe: I compiled it, and it reported I had three missing deps:
libidl, nss and orbit2. I tried to skip nss and orbit2 but it failed
compiling. Skipping only orbit2, it worked. So that's another
dependency than can be removed from the list, I think.

Overall: great job! :)

A question: from this thread I understand we can't redistribute
self-compiled binaries with the firefox logo... but can't we have the
recipe build it with the firefox branding? The firefox-branded build
would be local, not redistributed.

We could have two variants of the recipe, one for building locally
with the nice-looking icon and another for building the package for
the CD (or that's just asking for trouble?). I know, what we really
need is to be able to pass flags to Compile. I am just reluctant on
getting it done wrong, but I _really_ want this feature to be added in
a nice-and-clean way. I think I'll get this higher in my stuff-to-do
list for when I finish my dissertation later this month....

-- Hisham