> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 5:59 PM
> From: "Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support" 
> <[email protected]>
> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Douglas R. Reno" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 8.4 - Firefox 65.0.1 showing up as Nightly 
> on my system
>
> On 2019-03-09 17:11, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 04:54:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support 
> > wrote:
> >> 
> >> I found build/moz.configure/init.configure
> >> 
> >>     is_nightly = is_release_or_beta = None
> >> 
> >>     if 'a1' in milestone:
> >>         is_nightly = True
> >>     elif 'a' not in milestone:
> >>         is_release_or_beta = True
> >> 
> > I salute your expertise with searching :)
> >> 
> >> It is a python script and I'm not exactly fluent in python, but it 
> >> should
> >> return is_release_or_beta = True and is_nightly = None
> >> 
> >>   -- Bruce
> >> 
> > 
> > I would expect the milestone to be 65.0.1 (although I only recall
> > 'version' notation when looking at diffs beweeen betas/releases).
> > 
> > ĸen
> > --
> >   It is said that there are two great unsolved problems in computer
> >   science: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
> >                          -- Ben Bullock
> 
> Alright guys, after a long night of troubleshooting, I figured it out.
> 
> There must have been something wrong with my original script. It 
> installed Firefox Nightly into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/firefox 
> respectively. My guess is that it was a problem with my script. Here was 
> the whole process:
> 
> - Upgrade to latest node, cbindgen, NSPR, sqlite
> - Install Firefox-65.0.2
> - Determine that for some reason Firefox Nightly was still being opened
> - Run 'update-desktop-database' and find out that it was pulling from 
> /usr/local/* before /usr/*
> - Read the desktop file and determine that "Exec=firefox" means that 
> it'll pull any firefox that it can find, often times being the first in 
> the search path (which seems to be /usr/local)
> - Remove firefox nightly from /usr/local and...
> - VOLIA! I have a working Firefox-65.0.2.
> 
> Now with this, I uncovered another problem (although I'm comfortably in 
> firefox).
> 
> For some reason, xterm installed it's binaries to /usr/local/bin! Can 
> someone else confirm this? I verified that $XORG_CONFIG was present at 
> build-time and even rebuilt it, and found that it still placed binaries 
> in the wrong location.
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Only a rookie linux user should make a mistake as basic as not test compiling 
from scratch without a script, BEFORE posting to a mailing list.

Like the saying goes, a script is only as good as the one who wrote it.  In 
this case, it would seem not very good at all.

Christopher.
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