[CentOS-devel] Fwd: [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates

Thu Dec 1 07:00:58 UTC 2022
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> On 11/30/22 11:41, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote:
>> Thanks for the reference, Simon.  [tl;dr: delays due to CentOS folks
>> repeating tremendous effort RH already solved.]  While I am grateful for
>> everyone's time and efforts, it is hard to understand why there isn't
>> more technology transfer within RH to the CentOS folks if they're one
>> big happy family.  And disappointing there is no communication on this
>> issue here.
>>
>> With vulnerable internet-interacting apps like Thunderbird and Firefox
>> (possibly others), IMHO CentOS 7 is unsafe for general use.  Effectively
>> EOL.  I'm sad, but no time for self pity when there's work to replace
>> the OS on our systems...
>>
>> Thank you, CentOS team.  Incredible success for many years - I've
>> enjoyed the ride with you.
>>
>
> These (firefox and thunderbird) are now released.

Hi Johnny and all,

Thank you very much for your hard work on this, it's much appreciated!

Regards,
Simon

>
> Regardless, these things still need to be built in the CentOS
> Infrastructure.  Just FYI, i had to bootstrap all of the following to
> make this work:
>
> rust-1.54
> rust-1.58
> rust-1.62
> devtoolset-12
> llvm-toolset-12.0
> llvm-toolset-13.0
> llvm-toolset-14.0
>
> Many of these items needed to be combined together in different
> buildroots to get different library links.
>
> I also provided the required source packages to other people so they
> could build this as well since not all the things required to build
> Firefox/Thunderbird are part of the distribution.
>
> The real bottom line here is that this was not easy to do.  It requires
> MANY things that are newer than the items released in EL7.  But once
> built, it still needs to run on the items included in EL7.
>
> This was much easier to do in both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9
> as the toolsets are all part of those distribution.  They are not part
> of the RHEL 7 (so also not part of CentOS Linux 7).
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
>>
>> On 11/30/22 3:45 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> OK, this is a known issue as seen here:
>>>
>>> https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=79706
>>>
>>> Seems then that all users of CentOS 7 are at risk if they are using
>>> Firefox or Thunderbird on it.
>>>
>>> And that's for three months now. Not good.
>>>
>>> Dear Red Hat, how can you left us in the rain that way?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>>> [No response on CentOS list, so trying CentOS-devel.]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>>>> Subject:     [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates
>>>>>> Date:     Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:33:56 -0500
>>>>>> From:     Chris Schanzle via CentOS <centos at centos.org>
>>>>>> Reply-To:     Chris Schanzle <christopher.schanzle at nist.gov>, CentOS
>>>>>> mailing
>>>>>> list <centos at centos.org>
>>>>>> To:     CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like CentOS 7 hasn't shipped Thunderbird updates for a while.
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> latest I see in repos is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sep  1 15:22 thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perusing through the RHEL announcements, that was from the
>>>>>> RHSA-2022:6169-01 on 2022-08-24.  Seems none of the 102.x versions
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> shipped:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2022-09-26 RHSA-2022:6710-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2022-10-18 RHSA-2022:6998-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2022-10-25 RHSA-2022:7184-01 thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And for completeness, just announced today:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2022-11-21 RHSA-2022:8555-01 thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>> The same seems true for firefox, which is still at
>>>>> firefox-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.
>>>>>
>>>>> Was it not updated in RHEL7?
>>>> It was, at least Oracle Linux has firefox-102.5.0-1.0.1.el7_9.src.rpm
>>>>
>>>> I was already worried because firefox on CentOS7 as aged a bit...
>>>>
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