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1. Le dimanche 25 février 2007, 15:33 par blueser

Hi Remi,

(sorry for not speaking French... I'll have to do it in English)

first of all, thank you very much for your Firefox 2 RPM, they do make our lives easier =)

Now, the main reason for this message: I totally agree with what you say up there, it's really time to consider packaging language packs separately ;-)

/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/extensions currently amounts to 13M, and, I
really don't need any fancy langpack besides en_US and pt_BR (which I can install on my own, AFAIK). I guess maybe others will benefit from this, too, I guess it's unusual for someone to need more than a couple of languages simultaneously...

Anyway, it's just a suggestion, I do appreciate you spending your time to package Firefox 2 for us Fedora users =)

Regards,

Andre

2. Le dimanche 25 février 2007, 18:08 par Remi

As i said at the beginning of my post "it's really time to split, i think"

I'm used to be as close as possible to original RPM from Rawhide and official packager Christopher Aillon doesn't agree with this... :( As he said, every fedora package provides all translations (try "rpm -ql nautilus"), there's only 2 exceptions : kde and OOo.

I've began to work on a splitted version, but i'm searching for a easy way to do this. I don't want to receive a lot of emails titled "where is my language"

One solution (but to far from original) will be

• firefox requiring all langpacks and each langpack requiring firefox-browser.
• You can install only firefox-browser and your langpack
• Whose who "yum install firefox" will install all langpacks (as for official RPM)

And then langpacks could be improved, for example firefox-langpack-fr already provides MySpell dictionnaries and thunderbird-langpack-fr also provides translation for enigmail extension. Ok, i know there will probably have shared dictionaries in F7.

Others opinions ? Another solution ?

3. Le dimanche 25 février 2007, 23:42 par blueser

Hi Remi,

ok, now I understand the motivation behind packaging all langpacks together with Firefox, and indeed it makes sense considering the Fedora packaging philosophy. Still, I would really appreciate if Firefox packages could come in two different flavors: one complete and a "stripped" one, which we could match with any desired langpack without the need to install them all. Your suggestion of a full "firefox" package and a stripped "firefox-browser" would fit the bill, I guess.

... I know this means more work for you, so I'll understand if you choose not to go this way ;-)

Thks for listening to my plea, though =)

Regards,

André

4. Le vendredi 9 mars 2007, 19:46 par Uuioga

Bon, je vais me faire taper sur les doigts sans doute mais je vais tout de meme poser mon probleme, que je n'arrive pas à résoudre seul comme un grand...

En gros, apres un yum update firefox j'ai ce message qui apparait :

Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package devhelp needs gecko-libs = 1.8.0.9, this is not available.

J'ai lu sur plusieurs forums des gens ayant le meme probleme, mais pas encore de solution (je parie que tu vas m'en sortir un voir plusieurs)...

Mes dépots sont configurés de base, enfin je crois...

et je ne comprends pas comment mettre à jours gecko pour pouvoir poursuivre l'installation.

5. Le samedi 10 mars 2007, 08:54 par Remi

Gecko est l'un des composants de Firefox. Il est donc fournit par firefox.
Il faut donc activé mon dépôt pour résoudre les dépendances correctement.

Exemple :

• yelp-2.16.0-12.fc6 -> gecko-libs = 1.8.0.10 -> firefox-1.5.0.10
• yelp-2.16.0-12.fc6.remi -> gecko-libs = 1.8.1.2 -> firefox-2.0.0.2

Il s'agit probablement d'une des applications listées dans mon billet, sinon merci de me le signaler.

Donc, pour résumer :

yum --enablerepo=remi update firefox devhelp yelp ....

A+

6. Le lundi 19 mars 2007, 07:02 par Spydor

Hello-

I tried building Firefox-2.0.0.2-1 from your source rpm, and it fails because there is at least one missing file: firefox-mozconfig.fc4

It is required by the SPEC file, and missing in the SOURCES directory.

Just an FYI.

-spy

7. Le lundi 19 mars 2007, 08:05 par Remi

Because it's the FC6 SRPM.
I will try to change this for comming soon new 2.0.0.3.

Remi.

8. Le mardi 20 mars 2007, 19:09 par Remi

Billet archivé, voir firefox-2.0.0.3-1