On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:01 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'd like to try out some of the features of firefox-1.5, but trying to update > > to that version on my (fully-updated FC4) system out of the FC4 devel repo > > shows a sizable number of other packages that need to be updated (not > > that big of a surprise), and finally fails with a few missing dependencies > > (allegedly, xorg-x11-devel, XFree86-devel and others). > > Devel repo? You do understand that your FC4 machine will become a > development machine (or -rawhide) if you start using the -devel > repo, right? yup, but given that i'm about ready to make the jump to FC5t? anyway, i figure it's not that big a deal to push things a bit now. > > is it safe to try to update to firefox-1.5 on an FC4 system and, > > if so, what's the proper incantation? do i need any of the other > > repos enabled as well? i'd like to keep this as simple as > > possible. > > I download the firefox SRPM, modified the firefox.spec and > firefox-mozconfig file. > In SPECS/firefox.spec file: > * Remove all references to cairo and pango. > * Change nss version to 1.7.10 > * Change nss to mozilla-nss > * Change nspr version to 1.7.10 > * Change nspr to mozilla-nspr. > > In SOURCE/firefox-mozconfig file: > * Remove all references to pango. > * Remove all references to cairo. ah, the heck with it. maybe i'll just install FC5-test and take my chances. rday
