Re: Firefox update

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:12:28PM -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't work that way. When an RPM is updated, it removes the stuff it
owns, but is careful not to touch things it doesn't own. This is the correct
behavior -- *nothing* is getting "blown away", but rather, select files are
carefully removed. If it started acting otherwise, *that* would be a bug.

If you don't want this to happen, don't put files not managed by RPM under
/usr/[anything-but-local].

If something wants to install into the numbered firefox directory and move
itself when a new version of firefox is installed, that can be done with
triggers in that package's RPM -- apparently as the Java plugin package
does. This is _much_ cleaner, because you don't have some package moving
files it doesn't know anything about.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>


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