Orion Poplawski wrote:
A little over a year ago I asked about packaging Firefox extensions and was told things would be better in Firefox 1.1. We now have 1.5. Are we ready to start packaging Firefox extensions?
Things are better, but nowhere near great. The fact that Firefox doesn't use versioned libraries means that every time the version changes upstream, the on-disk directory changes. In any case, things are probably "good enough" since extensions can be properly installed and uninstalled without manual user intervention. Take a look at what beagle does to install its extension.
Just before I sent this, I thought of a potentially big problem though..... the automatic software update that Firefox has. It's extremely likely that extensions can installed via RPM, then updated via the software updater, and then rpmdb will not match what's on disk, causing potential problems for future rpm operations such as rpm -U, rpm -e, and obviously rpm -V.
We probably need a solution for that before we start shipping extensions as part of extras.
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