FS#13657 - Build Xulrunner with Firefox source tarball for fastest security updates

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bruno Tsubouchi Yporti (yportilog) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 10:09 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 07 March 2009, 19:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Xulrunner source tarball is released days after Firefox, this causes a delay in the package Firefox on ArchLinux. I suggest built Xulrunner with Firefox source tarball, this would make the security updates faster, many of them considered critical.

My package xulrunner-optimized on AUR uses this method for build and works fine.

Regards.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 07 March 2009, 19:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Bruno Tsubouchi Yporti (yportilog) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 10:17 GMT
This is a feature request, right? Sorry.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 11:23 GMT
It seems the firefox sources are just xulrunner with some additional things to build the browser. I checked client.mk, there was only one difference: MODULES_browser and MODULES_xulrunner have some different directories. I compared two checkouts using diff, no difference at all between mozilla/xulrunner in firefox and xulrunner.
I'll implement this when the next version of firefox will be released.
Comment by Bruno Tsubouchi Yporti (yportilog) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 14:52 GMT
Thanks.

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