Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Genes MailLists wrote: > Some have argued that fedora itself is a rolling release - others > look for something more closely resembling the kernel dev model (there > are some differences between kernel dev and distro however ... tho more > in detail than idea) And others (like me) look for somethi

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/28/2011 09:24 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> As long as packages for Rawhide are not signed, any recommendation to >> use them on production systems is a step backwards for Fedora. Actually >> there should be more prominent recommendations not to use Rawhide on >> production systems. >> > Ya

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Genes MailLists
> > As long as packages for Rawhide are not signed, any recommendation to > use them on production systems is a step backwards for Fedora. Actually > there should be more prominent recommendations not to use Rawhide on > production systems. > Yah ... also rawhide, a rolling build, and a roll

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > Kevin Kofler writes: > > > Personally, I think we should just push the new stuff into updates > > whenever it makes sense (i.e. not for something like KDE 3 to 4 or > > GNOME 2 to 3 ;-) ). > > Or we can encourage more people to us

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 03/24/2011 01:38 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 03/23/2011 08:36 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Jochen Schmitt wrote: If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use the private firefox4 repository on >> >> >>

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Dodji Seketeli
Kevin Kofler writes: > Personally, I think we should just push the new stuff into updates > whenever it makes sense (i.e. not for something like KDE 3 to 4 or > GNOME 2 to 3 ;-) ). Or we can encourage more people to use Rawhide proper. I know it might sound too wild for some, but it's my belief

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-28 Thread Dodji Seketeli
"Joshua C." writes: > Or maybe "being on the edge" isn't why we all use this distro? Yeah maybe :-) I like being as close as reasonable to the edge, but not closer. -- Dodji -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2011 21:39, schrieb Felix Miata: > What do you suppose > http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-x86_64/de/ > > contains? mozilla.org predates mozilla.com many years. The former (via an > alias) is the only place I look for Mozilla product downloads. t

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/03/25 21:23 (GMT+0100) Reindl Harald composed: >> On 03/25/2011 12:21 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> what fails and i could spit mozilla in the face because they >>> are still ignoring x86_64, guys we are living in 2011 :-( >> mozilla definitely puts out 64 bit firefox-4 and thunder

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2011 18:32, schrieb Genes MailLists: > On 03/25/2011 12:21 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> > >> what fails and i could spit mozilla in the face because they >> are still ignoring x86_64, guys we are living in 2011 :-( >> >> >mozilla definitely puts out 64 bit firefox-4 and thunderbird st

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/25/2011 12:21 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > what fails and i could spit mozilla in the face because they > are still ignoring x86_64, guys we are living in 2011 :-( > > mozilla definitely puts out 64 bit firefox-4 and thunderbird starting swith 3.3 series as well. fedora builds like

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/25/2011 05:07 PM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide. >> >> You are mixing up "rolling release" with "development" dump yard. > > I'm not yet conviced that there is a significant dif

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2011 17:12, schrieb Reindl Harald: > and in the backrgound i try to build a firefox4-package based > on the remi-srpms with target /opt to get both running without > change my whole browser and get lost most extensions and themes what fails and i could spit mozilla in the face because

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/24/2011 03:16 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > > At first, you mean 'Fedora was know for offering the ' > But during the the update policy I think we will never see firefox-4.0 > as an official Fedora 14 package. Firefox 4 wouldn't have been pushed as an update regardless of the policy. It i

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2011 17:07, schrieb Ralf Ertzinger: > Hi. > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>> We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide. >> >> You are mixing up "rolling release" with "development" dump yard. > > I'm not yet conviced that there is a significant

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:16:41 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > We do have a rolling release, it's called rawhide. > > You are mixing up "rolling release" with "development" dump yard. I'm not yet conviced that there is a significant difference in the long term. -- devel mailing list devel@l

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/25/2011 12:38 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Henrique Junior: > >> It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are >> talking about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the >> opinion of you, guys, about the new open

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/25/2011 07:38 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Henrique Junior: > >> It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are >> talking about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the >> opinion of you, guys, about the new ope

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
Henrique Junior wrote: > It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are talking > about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the opinion of you, > guys, about the new openSUSE's tumbleweed [1] [2] repo, that tries to > bring to openSUSE some "rolling release" behaviour. >

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Henrique Junior: > It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are > talking about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the > opinion of you, guys, about the new openSUSE's tumbleweed [1] [2] > repo, that tries to bring t

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
Henrique Junior wrote: > It may sound a little off-topic to this thread, but since we are talking > about bring new stuff into F14 I would like to know the opinion of you, > guys, about the new openSUSE's tumbleweed [1] [2] repo, that tries to > bring to openSUSE some "rolling release" behaviour. >

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 03/24/2011 07:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > drago01 wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler >> wrote: >>> Adam Williamson wrote: In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to 'unins

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Henrique Junior
On 24.03.2011 19:23, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just >> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to >> 'uninstall'. :) > Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow, > ve

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Kai Engert
On 24.03.2011 19:23, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just >> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to >> 'uninstall'. :) > Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow, > ve

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joshua C. wrote: > I think this discussion goes in the wrong direction. Firefox 4 is (for > me) a working browser that I want to use. Without a proper rpm the > tarball is the only solution left. Spot's solution circumvents the > xulrunner nightmare and Remi's idea

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Joshua C.
2011/3/24 Kevin Kofler : > drago01 wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler >> wrote: >>> Adam Williamson wrote: In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to 'uninstall'. :) >>> >>>

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >>> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just >>> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to >>> 'uninstall'. :) >> >> Did they really manage to stuff even

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread drago01
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just >> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to >> 'uninstall'. :) > > Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the bi

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just > gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to > 'uninstall'. :) Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow, very un-unixy! ;-) Kevin Kofler -- deve

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 18:39 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > but it is also hard to uninstall without leaving residual files, which also > implies that upgrades sometimes leave old versions of the files sitting > around. In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just gives you

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/14/remi/i386/repoview/ http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/14/remi/x86_64/repoview/ Never install any software without a RPM if there is no really good reason and "firfox 4 is available" is really no reason even if that would me

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Genes MailLists wrote: >Or you can simply download it direct from mozilla.org and install it > in /usr/local/ I don't think bypassing package management is something we want to recommend. Not only is stuff installed that way not built according to Fedora guidelines, which leads to issues li

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 03/24/2011 04:36 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:36:33 -0400 > Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Jochen Schmitt wrote: > If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use the private firefox4 repository on > >

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
On 10:33:31 AM Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and > > > "being on the edg

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-24 Thread Joshua C.
2011/3/24 Pete Zaitcev : > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:36:33 -0400 > Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> > Jochen Schmitt wrote: > >> >> If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use >> >> the private firefox4 repository on > >>    Or you can

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:36:33 -0400 Genes MailLists wrote: > On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Jochen Schmitt wrote: > >> If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use > >> the private firefox4 repository on >Or you can simply download it direct from mozil

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/23/2011 08:36 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Jochen Schmitt wrote: >>> If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use >>> the private firefox4 repository on >>> > > >Or you can simply download it direct from mozilla.org

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/23/2011 07:58 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jochen Schmitt wrote: >> If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use >> the private firefox4 repository on >> Or you can simply download it direct from mozilla.org and install it in /usr/local/ -- devel mailing list devel@

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jochen Schmitt wrote: > If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use > the private firefox4 repository on > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/firefox4 There's also Remi Collet's repository: http://blog.famillecollet.com/ Spot's firefox4 repository provides a para

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2011, 22:46 +0100 schrieb Jochen Schmitt: > Perhaps, we have luck and get a so-called 'Feature Repository'. I'm working on that... > If you want to get firefox4 on Fedora 14 now, the only way is to use > the private firefox4 repository on > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 21:46:07 Jochen Schmitt wrote: > For KDE-4.6 we have the same situation. In this case you can > get it from the http://apt.kde-redhat.com which is maintained > by Rex Dieter. It is .org not .com The url is http://apt.kde-redhat.org -- José Abílio -- devel mail

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Joshua C.
2011/3/23 Jochen Schmitt : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 23.03.2011 22:35, schrieb Joshua C.: >> fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and >> "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 >> will ever get the latest firefox

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Joshua C.
2011/3/23 Nathaniel McCallum : > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and >> > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the lat

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and > > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 > > will ever get the latest

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Jochen Schmitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.03.2011 22:35, schrieb Joshua C.: > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0? > At first, you mean 'Fedora was

Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Miller
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote: > Hi, > > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0? > > Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not su

Firefox 4 for f14?

2011-03-23 Thread Joshua C.
Hi, fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 will ever get the latest firefox 4.0? Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not such a good option. --jason -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje