On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Yamaban <foerster at lisas.de> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 16:56, Johnny Hughes <johnny at ...> wrote: > >> On 03/08/2017 09:39 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 03/08/2017 09:10 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> >>>>> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I am currently building the latest Firefox updates and I have noticed >>>>>> that they have upgraded the CentOS-7 Firefox from the ESR tree (45.8) >>>>>> to >>>>>> the mainline tree (Currently firefox-52.0). They have left EL5 and >>>>>> EL6 >>>>>> at the ESR level (45.8.0-2). >>>>>> >>>>>> EL7: >>>>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html >>>>>> >>>>>> EL5 and EL6: >>>>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html >>>>>> >>>>>> As stated above, I am currently building and testing these, so they >>>>>> are >>>>>> not yet released .. just preparing people for the changes. >>>>>> >>>>> >>> Does anyone know if ESR 52.x will eventually be released for CentOS 6? >>> >> >> I am sure it will, certainly when version 45 goes EOL. >> >> The variables and content to build it on EL6 are in the current EL7 >> SRPM, but the EL5 stuff is (understandably, since it is going EOL soon) >> missing. >> >> What I am not sure of is if EL7 will stay on the Current Release for the >> next update or if it will shift back to ESR. >> > > Eh?? There is a slight misunderstanding here. > > The Firefox 52.0 Version is released for BOTH, the normal release channel > AND the ESR channel. This was done to have one 6 week periode of overlapp > between the old and the new ESR version, to "ease over" the transistion, > as the 52 version insists on GKT3 and gstreamer 1.x normally. > > (snip) This is the point that worries me. If ESR 52.x requires GTK3, then how can it be supported on CentOS 6? -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu