Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade.
If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also. Thnx.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Robert Spangler mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade.
If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also. Thnx.
It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing.
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 19:31, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Robert Spangler
mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade.
If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also. Thnx.
It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing.
Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo?
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo?
You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - they're pretty good about compatibility. I'd try it out in a different install directory, though, just to be sure, but you can always uninstall it and re-load the release version if it doesn't work right for you.
mhr
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:19 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo?
You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - they're pretty good about compatibility. I'd try it out in a different install directory, though, just to be sure, but you can always uninstall it and re-load the release version if it doesn't work right for you.
I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the 3.0rc1 tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there.
]$ ls -l bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 hardtolove hardtolove 32 May 21 13:07 bin/firefox -> /home/hardtolove/firefox/firefox
Then, modify PATH assignment in ~/.bash_profile to something like this
$ echo $PATH /home/hardtolove/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I test the new one. So far it's looking pretty good.
mhr
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HTH
On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 "WLM" == William L Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
WLM> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:19 -0700, MHR wrote: >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler >> mlists@zoominternet.net wrote: >> > >> > Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo? >> > >> >> You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - <snipped>
WLM> I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the WLM> 3.0rc1 tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there.
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WLM> This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I WLM> test the new one. So far it's looking pretty good.
Question: if I do this, will I be able to move back to the stock-1.5-version without problems. In other words: is the stuff like bookmarks, history etc that is written to disk backward-compatible?
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:09 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:51:07 -0400 "WLM" == William L Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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WLM> I chose not to uninstall the distributed one. I unpackaed the WLM> 3.0rc1 tarball in the $HOME of a user and run it from there. <snipped recipe> WLM> This lets all other users get the box-stock version while I WLM> test the new one. So far it's looking pretty good.Question: if I do this, will I be able to move back to the stock-1.5-version without problems. In other words: is the stuff like bookmarks, history etc that is written to disk backward-compatible?
Last time I did something like this was with the beta 5 release. In that case I removed the box version and installed globally. Going that direction, the per-user config files seemed to hold as normal. Once I discovered that the needed Java app wouldn't work, I uninstalled the beta, reinstalled box-stock.
Again, no config issues.
Before everybody beats me like a rented mule, there was no risk to other users - I'm it, just with different logons. So I felt comfortable with picking up the pieces if it broke and did not grab one of my other machines for testing.
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HTH
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 20:19, MHR wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Robert Spangler
mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
Can I use one out of the Fedora's repos? If so, which repo?
You can just pull down the latest version from mozilla.org - they're pretty good about compatibility. I'd try it out in a different install directory, though, just to be sure, but you can always uninstall it and re-load the release version if it doesn't work right for you.
I downloaded the tar file from Mozilla and placed it under my home Dir. Seems to be working fine presently. After some more tests if there are no issues I'll replace 1.5 with 2.0. Thank for your help.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing.
It looks like there is a good chance it will be included in 4.7: https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2008-May/msg00052.html
(- Added Firefox3)
Take care, Daniel
on 5-29-2008 4:55 AM Daniel de Kok spake the following:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing.
It looks like there is a good chance it will be included in 4.7: https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2008-May/msg00052.html
(- Added Firefox3)
Take care, Daniel
RedHat must be trying to cut some of the costs of backporting. They seem somewhat more willing to update versions then they used to be.
on 5-27-2008 4:22 PM Robert Spangler spake the following:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade.
If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also. Thnx.
I wouldn't count on it. CentOS 4 (now at 4.6) is in maintenance only mode, and unless someone adds it to plus, I doubt it will make it in. From the CentOS wiki;
<quote>
How long will CentOS-4 updates be supported? We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012.
The current plan is this:
Full Updates (including hardware updates): Currently to Feb 29, 2008
Maintenance Updates: Mar 1, 2008 to Feb 29, 2012
Full Updates - During the Full Updates phase, new hardware support will be provided at the discretion of CentOS via Update Sets. Additionally, all available and qualified errata will be provided via Update Sets (or individually {and immediately} for Security level errata.) Update Sets normally will be released 2-4 times per year, with new ISOs released as part of each Update Set. In the 4.x numbering scheme, the .x is the number of the Update Set.
Maintenance Updates - During the Maintenance updates phase, only Security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released. There will be few, if any, Update Sets released.
</quote>
Robert Spangler wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade.
I have a Firefox3 beta3 rpm for CentOS-4 that works in parallel with the distro firefox. once Firefox3 is released upstream I will get that built for CentOS-4 and put that in the CentOS Plus repo.
- KB
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 12:53 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Robert Spangler wrote:
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I have a Firefox3 beta3 rpm for CentOS-4 that works in parallel with the distro firefox. once Firefox3 is released upstream I will get that built for CentOS-4 and put that in the CentOS Plus repo.
JIC you might have an interest (saves work later, more stable than beta, whatever), they have released an rc1 that I've been running the last week or so.
- KB
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HTH
William L. Maltby wrote:
I have a Firefox3 beta3 rpm for CentOS-4 that works in parallel with the distro firefox. once Firefox3 is released upstream I will get that built for CentOS-4 and put that in the CentOS Plus repo.
JIC you might have an interest (saves work later, more stable than beta, whatever), they have released an rc1 that I've been running the last week or so.
I did the rpm to work out and prep an rpmbuild spec for it, not really so much as to use it. I'm still using the distro supplied firefox on my c4 machines still. Once ff3 is out of the door, will eval that as well. Besides, release is not far now....
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