On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe this is not OT. > > Something odd happened today. > > Some of my machines kave firefox-8.0.1 binaries from mozilla installed (these > distros, I have just for comparison and learning purposes). > > Fedora is one of them. Just to check for the version, I clicked in "About > Firefox", and to my surprise, it stated 8.0.1 but a security (if I remember > correctly) upgrade was available in Mozilla. However, in the site, > firefox-8.0.1 was latest. After closing and running several times, with the > same result, I decided to download it, and sizes, diff and signatures were > different from new 8.0.1 to previous 8.0.1; after replaced, i.e., removing > old 8.0.1 and installing new 8.0.1, there was no upgrade available anymore. > > Then I downloaded the source, and again, it is different from previous one, > but I have not installed it yet, without asking for your advice. > > I have old and new files in my HD, if anyone wants them. > > Please, does anyone know what is happening or what this means? > > []s, > Fernando
Could it be that the Fedora package maintainers did their own patching? I don't know about Fedora, but I do remember from ubuntu having packages like foo-1.2-ubuntu1 and foo-1.2-ubuntu2, while having the same version, being different because of different patches from the ubuntu maintainers? Matijn -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
