[CentOS] Firefox 60.0.1.0 ESR Progress?
Alice Wonder
alice at domblogger.netMon Jul 2 14:31:20 UTC 2018
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On 07/02/2018 06:57 AM, Sean wrote: > Is there a way to track CentOS's progress on RHSA-2018-2113? > > https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113 > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > This is what I do and it works well, script run as root after downloading compiled tarball from upstream. ------ #!/bin/bash TMP=`mktemp -d /tmp/ff.XXXXXXXX` mv $1 ${TMP}/ pushd ${TMP} FFOX=`echo $1 |sed -e s?"\.tar\.bz2"?""?` tar -jxf ${1} chown -R root:root firefox mv firefox /usr/local/${FFOX} popd pushd /usr/local rm -f firefox && ln -s ${FFOX} firefox popd rm -rf ${TMP} --------- $1 is the FireFox downloaded from upstream (compiled) Installing it as root means I am safe from malware over-writing bits of it, but I do have to manually download. /usr/local/firefox/firefox then starts it - and old versions are preserved in case something breaks (I just change which one the /usr/local/firefox link points to - though I almost never have to revert) It's not RPM but there are too many advantages to newer FireFox for me to wait.
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