[Mageia-dev] Firefox 5

Thu Jun 23 21:52:30 CEST 2011

On 23 June 2011 07:58, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Thierry Vignaud
+> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> On 22 June 2011 19:41, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+>>>> Well, it's quite possible that we have to include that in Mageia 1 as
+>>>> well, as this will be security update for Firefox 4. If we don't want to
+>>>> patch every CVE then we have to include it into Mageia 1 as well..
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>> Would be nice to know, if this is planned?
+>>>
+>>> I have rebuild FF5 here locally for Mageia 1, and the only addons that i
+>>> lost is
+>>> Linkification, but that is merely due to it's developers who already messed
+>>> up
+>>> with FF4. They don't offer the proper update on Firefox Addons site.
+>>>
+>>> So, please, what about Firefox 5 for Mageia 1 as an update (backport?)
+>>
+>> Humm, MGA is stricter than MDV and refuses to backport packages
+>> directly from cauldron:
+>>
+>> mgarepo submit --define section=core/backports -t 1 </dev/null
+>> Submitting xulrunner at revision 110647
+>> URL: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner
+>> error: command failed: ssh pkgsubmit.mageia.org
+>> /usr/local/bin/submit_package -t 1 --define
+>> sid=4845bffd-7f94-4c8c-931e-cfb746d01a0d --define
+>> section=core/backports -r 110647
+>> svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner
+>> error: svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages/cauldron/xulrunner is not
+>> allowed for this target
+>>
+>
+> yes it needs to go to backports_testing before iirc
+>
+
+Got a link to a thread on -dev ML / irc meeting log / <insert your
+favourite communication method here>, where this was decided?
+
+> But i think sec team need to speak of FF5 first because i think this
+> will be a candidate for updates regarding new firefox upstream policy
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+