[gobolinux-users] Re: Firefox up to date

[Laurent Pelecq]

Le Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:49:24 -0300, "Hisham Muhammad"
<hisham.hm at gmail.com> a dit :
> On 7/28/06, Sean Russell <gobo at ser1.net> wrote:
> > Is there any reason that non-OpenSource software can't have a recipe in
> > Gobo?  Assuming that it is free as in "free beer", then where's the
> > restriction?  Or is this a different discussion, about dogma?
> 
> It's more a practical problem, since Compile is about, well, compiling
> things, and most non-open-source software, well, has no sources
> available. And there are, more often than not, licensing restrictions
> such as "you have to show this 'I agree' message" and things like
> that.

If I summarize what have been said:
- MJ Ray would like to have only free software when possible. But
  nobody has proposed to compile firefox so far.
- Sean prefers software to be available whether it is free or not.
- Jonas have written Firefox recipe for 1.0.7 but gave up since official
  logo and name cannot be used when compiling from source.


Vulnerabilities that have been fixed in version 1.5.0.5 have been
reported as highly critical
 http://secunia.com/advisories/19873/

Don't you think it would be better not to distribute firefox at all
than to disbribute an old version.


I install firefox as soon as it is available. So if the problem is
just to make the package, I don't mind providing it from official
builds. Although I don't use the en-US localization, this is not a
problem.

Anyway, it would be better to have prebuilt packages in a separate
repository such as binary-only or prebuild (and that should be
acceptable for people that want to install only packages compiled
from sources).

This is the latest version if you want to test:
http://plicq.ouvaton.org/download/gobolinux/prebuild/Firefox--1.5.0.5--i686.tar.bz2

My GPG key is E046040B (http://plicq.ouvaton.org/gpg.txt)

-- 
Laurent