Thanks for the idea, I'm not in a hurry and don't have a desire to hand-jam upstream versions of firefox onto desktops. I just need to track progress on the patch release and report an ETA to our cyber security team.
I just figured CentOS had a fancy devops CI/CD system somewhere that I could keep tabs on to watch what's going on as patches get built, tested and published. Seems like all the cool kids are doing that kind of stuff these days.
From: Alice Wonder alice@domblogger.net To: centos@centos.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 07:31:20 -0700 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 60.0.1.0 ESR Progress? On 07/02/2018 06:57 AM, Sean wrote:
Is there a way to track CentOS's progress on RHSA-2018-2113?
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113
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This is what I do and it works well, script run as root after downloading compiled tarball from upstream.
#!/bin/bash
TMP=`mktemp -d /tmp/ff.XXXXXXXX` mv $1 ${TMP}/
pushd ${TMP}
FFOX=`echo $1 |sed -e s?".tar.bz2"?""?`
tar -jxf ${1}
chown -R root:root firefox
mv firefox /usr/local/${FFOX}
popd
pushd /usr/local
rm -f firefox && ln -s ${FFOX} firefox
popd
rm -rf ${TMP}
$1 is the FireFox downloaded from upstream (compiled)
Installing it as root means I am safe from malware over-writing bits of it, but I do have to manually download.
/usr/local/firefox/firefox then starts it - and old versions are preserved in case something breaks (I just change which one the /usr/local/firefox link points to - though I almost never have to revert)
It's not RPM but there are too many advantages to newer FireFox for me to wait.