On 4/14/06, Cam <camilo(a)mesias.co.uk> wrote:
I'm just a bit confused about your comment about Firefox's
internal
update mechanism not being useful. I thought it would be tremendously
useful to a typical user... but disabled by choice in the Fedora-built
Firefox. I'm in the dark, enlighten me?
Disabled by choice because updates directly from
mozilla.org to the
firefox system binares are NOT going to work when applied to fedora
builds. The updates
mozilla.org offers only work when applied to
binaries produced by
mozilla.org. You do a rebuild with any patches or
any different compiler options and you get a different binary...so
whatever binary diffs
mozilla.org hands you can not be applied
correctly. I can not fathom how you can fail to understand the
inherent limitations of a binary diff feature that binary diffs are
only valid when applied to the specific binary they were generated
against.
If you dont want to use the fedora built binaries you are free to
uninstall the rpm and use the mozilla builds. Have fun.
-jef