On 08/30/2011 09:15 AM, Florian Hubold wrote:
Am 30.08.2011 15:04, schrieb TJ:
On 08/28/2011 11:27 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 08:47:28PM -0400, TJ wrote in
<[email protected]>:
As I complete my brand-new production install of Mageia 1, I'm
overjoyed to see that Firefox has been updated to version 6. Too bad
they didn't do the same with Thunderbird...
Oh, well. At least the vendor's package is easy to install.
For firefox, the new release claims to offer some fixes for security
issues while the release packaged has been EOL'ed by Mozilla, meaning no
security fixes will be made to those older versions anymore.
With Thunderbird, they have been less clear and the version released
with Mageia is still supported, sort of. Because of this, and for as
long as this holds, that release will be included with Mageia 1, though
newer versions might well appear in the backports section.
I'm going to hope that Mageia's backports have a better track record
for me than Mandriva's has. A backport of Firefox 3.6 disabled the
help system for Gnucash, just as I was in the middle of trying to
learn how to use it, and a backported hplip was a disaster with my
printers. To be fair, a backported Gimp upgrade worked just fine, as
did a recent VirtualBox. Even so, that's only a 50% success rate, not
particularly encouraging.
TJ
Please see thread on Mageia-dev, related to Thunderbird update strategy
for Mageia 1.
Subject: thunderbird update for mageia 1: update to 6.0 or go with 3.1
branch?
Since my install has but one ordinary user (me), "he's" the only one
who's going to use Thunderbird. I have had "him" install the vendor's
version of Thunderbird in his home directory. Then, root put a link to
it named "tbird" in /usr/bin. That seems to work just fine. If I'm
correct, in the future that should make Thunderbird updates a simple
matter of using the vendor's update function.
There are a *few* things I can handle on my own...
TJ
