On 07/11/2011 04:07 PM, Maciej Małecki wrote:
Hello everyone!
As it is my first mail to this list, let me briefly introduce myself:
I am Maciej Małecki, software developer based in Poznań, Poland. I've
been using Fedora since F11 (and I love it).
The point is: is there a chance to have Mozilla Aurora, Beta and
Nightly in F16 repositories? I think it would make life easier for
quite many people. Now installation process is to download .tar.gz
from Mozilla, unpack to /usr/lib64/firefox-7 (for Aurora) and create a
.desktop file in /usr/share/applications.
Mozilla guys discussed it here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600317, however most of
the links are outdated/404.
I know there are a few third party repos already set up for this, but
honestly, I very strongly recommend that people would just get their
pre-release builds directly from Mozilla in exactly the way you
describe. As we're talking about pre-release software, it would be most
beneficial for both Fedora and Mozilla if you participated in the
pre-release process using the official nightlies and reporting bugs you
encounter to Mozilla.