[CentOS] Firefox for CentOS

[Phelps, Matthew]

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?


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Matt Phelps
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Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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