On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:00:56 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:13:01PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > >> > >> There's some chrome stuff leftover in the first two, only the Java plugin > >> let in the 1.0.1 one. My guess is that this one is an improvement over > >> the older ones, but still leaves behind things it didn't install. It > > > > Yes, exactly -- if there's stuff in the directory that doesn't belong to the > > firefox RPM, it just leaves it there, as that's basically the safest thing > > to do. > > > >> doesn't install Java. The new one did copy my Java plugin symlink. > > > > Are you sure? I don't see anything in the package scripts to do that. Maybe > > there's a trigger in the Java plugin RPM? > > Could be. These are the JPackage RPMs for Java 1.5.0. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > Save yourself from future annoyances and put all your custom plugins into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. To whomever is creating the rpm update script for Firefox/Mozilla: Please just copy over everything in the previous plugins directory to the new directory and then delete the older version's directory. There is no point in saving the old directory if you are blowing everything else away.
