On 09/27/2010 06:34 PM, Norbert Wenzel wrote: > On 27.09.2010 17:52, Manuel Reimer wrote: >> Chris Browet wrote: >>> This is about the actual files, e.g. is /usr/bin/firefox replaced in the >>> process or is it just a stub to the actual executable located somewhere >>> else? >> >> Firefox automagically detects, that it is *not* able to update and just >> notifies the user about the update. The real update comes *always* via >> package manager. > > Are you sure Firefox does this, or is this the package maintainers work? > If you "install" Firefox directly from the released archives to your > home directory update works as on a Windows machine. At least it does so > for nightlies, which are located in my home directory.
Firefox ships almost everything it needs to run, so it is easy to install it in your home directory. For Merkaartor, I'd at least recommend to link QT statically - there are too large differences between the different distributions. Usually a much better idea is to use the OpenSuSE build server which allows to build packages for most distributions automatically. Interested people could just update the installed package - which would not need to ship QT and other libraries then, but instead it could depend on the packages shipped with the system. For Debian I'd be willing to upload snapshots to 'experimental' regulary. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
