Le mercredi 29 juin 2005 �2:17 +0100, Paul Howarth a �it : > Eric Tanguy wrote: > > Le mercredi 29 juin 2005 �0:58 +0100, Paul Howarth a �it : > > > >>Eric Tanguy wrote: > >> > >>>When i installed java-1.5.0-sun-plugin-1.5.0.04-1jpp.i586.rpm the link > >>>is created in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8/plugins/ and i have to copy it > >>>manually to /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins/. Why this link is not > >>>created at the right place ? > >> > >>The trigger script in the java-1.5.0-sun-plugin package that is intended > >>to set up this link tries to figure out where to put the link by > >>searching for the definition of MOZ_DIST_BIN in /usr/bin/firefox. > >>However, in the FC4 firefox, MOZ_DIST_BIN is specified as: > >> > >>MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.0.4" > >>rather than > >>MOZ_DIST_BIN="/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4" > >> > >>and the script doesn't know how to handle that. This is probably worth > >>bringing up with the people at jpackage. > >> > > > > So how to change that ? have we to modify the firefox package ? May be > > it will be better to put the plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins which > > seems to be used by firefox (with no version dependance) and mozilla ? > > That seems reasonable to me but there may be a good reason why it's not > done by default. I will be interested by knowing this reason. > What needs fixing is the spec file for the jpackage java package so that > if MOZ_DIST_BIN comes back as "$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.0.4" then it goes > back and looks to see what MOZ_LIB_DIR is (using the same method as for > finding MOZ_DIST_BIN) and substitues that. Not terribly difficult. How to indicate this to the jpackage maintainer ? Eric
