On 4/14/06, Cam <camilo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The update method is still a good one, would it be hard for Fedora to > patch the in-house Firefox to use a Fedora server with the correct > binary patches? Then Firefox could do whatever clever things it does to > make sure that a user's extensions are still in order. We are NOT talking about user's extentions. Let me re-iterate, the user-installed extentions updates should still work in fedora's firefox build. Stop dragging the non-issue of user installed extentions into this thread. You are only confusing yourself and other potential readers. The idea of a fedora specific server to provide binary blobs to the fedora builds of firefox is absolutely frelling pointless extra work for fedora to do for a single frelling application. Its just extras work on top of releasing an rpm.. extra work that is only going to benefit a single frelling package in the distribution. A HUGE frelling waste of limited Fedora developer and instrastructure engineering time. If fedora developers want to solve whatever problem you want solved with the firefox specific update crap is best served by figuring out something that benefits the distribution in general. I'll leave it as an a excercise for you to go into the -devel archive and read up on threads concerning rpm package level technologies concerned with small "patch" packages. You also seem to completely have a lack of understanding of the general benefits of rpm central management approach. Having binary blobs that are not handled by rpm transactions means that you break things like the rpm --verify functionality when you apply those non-rpm managed binary blobs. You have to understand that mozilla.org tracks its binary builds and updates from a central locations for a number of reasons... and the exposed update mechanims implemented in firefox are designed to address the specific constraints that mozilla has, partly because mozilla's distribution policies don't take advantage of a widely distributed mirror system and partly because mozilla.org tries to provide builds for multiple operating systems. Fedora has neither of these constraints, and the truth of the matter is it would take more time for Fedora to provide the binary blob updates than it would to generate the rpm update package. Whatever problem you want solved, is not going to be solved by implementing a fedora specific firefox patch server. -jef -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list