Mr. Hughes,

Thank very much for the update! That's the kind of info I was looking for, if an ETA isn't reasonable to ask for. I can report a summary of your note to my upstream authorities. I support both SL7 and C7 workstations, but had not yet seen the update on the sl-devel list.

I appreciate you taking the time to answer this thread! Thanks for your hard work!

From: Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org To: centos@centos.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:16:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox 60.0.1.0 ESR Progress? On 07/03/2018 09:04 AM, Sean wrote:

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.

OK guys .. Firefox 60 is going to take some time .. likely more for CentOS-6 than CentOS-7.

They both (C6 and C7 versions) require many non OS tools to build.

For CentOS-7 .. we need the rust-toolset, llvm-toolset, and devtoolset-7, to get the firefox to build.

For CentOS-6, we need less items (no llvm-toolset required .. all the rest is required). But, there is no released source code for the EL6 version of rust-devtoolset upstream.

I am working on this now .. but we had the 6.10 release and the also 32 other items that dropped for CentOS-7 (both of which are now done).

I am not the only one having issues with Firefox-60 (see this thread on the Scientific Linux list):

https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1807&L=scientific-linux-d...

I hope to have this working soon .. but. it is not just a build and release kind of package.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes