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FS#1776 - Firefox improvements

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 11 November 2004, 15:24 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 11 November 2004, 19:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The current version of firefox is still a preview/rc, so now is a nice time to do fixes before releasing the next version.

I took some changes from the gentoo ebuild, added some things by myself and this is what we get:
- everything is stuffed in /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/firefox
- icons and desktop files are added, should appear in gnome and KDE menu now (and every other fd.o compliant menu)
- launcher script is fixed to open a new window on 2nd invocation if started without URL
- include files are no longer copied
- pkg-config files are no longer copied
- source dir is cleaned up, stuffed everything in a files/ directory

In fact, firefox is stripped down to only the core browser now. Yes I know epiphany can use Firefox as browser component, and no, we don't need that on archlinux.

The package can be found at http://schoolbak.dyndns.org/~jan/archlinux/mozilla-firefox.tar.gz
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 07 January 2005, 21:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  We have a better proposal for now
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 12 November 2004, 07:30 GMT
There's an error in my package:
- The launcher looks for /opt/mozilla-firefox/bin/firefox while it should be looking for /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/firefox/firefox
- the .install script needs a /bin/true in the pre_remove

Further more, since everything is in /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib, the package could be moved to /opt/mozilla-firefox without the lib prefix in that, which is a bit cleaner.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 12 November 2004, 07:35 GMT
Furthermore the PKGBUILD misses the -p at the two mkdir statements when /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} are created.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 12 November 2004, 08:18 GMT
After fixing the above, I uploaded everything, including the compiled package to http://schoolbak.dyndns.org/~jan/archlinux/mozilla-firefox/

Please note that the compiled package could have unresolved dependencies on various gnome parts or even heimdal. Also note this package has been built on a system with some development gnome parts (glib2/gtk2 2.5.x)

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