Op Fri, 5 Sep 2014 18:03:36 +0530 schreef arnuld uttre <arnuld.miz...@gmail.com>:
> 1) I see Firifox 31.0 binay (downloaded from official site) works on > my gNewSense 3.1 installation (amd64) without any issues. It means > compiling from source will work too. So I thought I could get the > source code and compil/build it the way gNewSense does for removing > non-free stuff. but I need to have some manual that gNewSense > developers follow. Compiling Firefox/IceCat is not for the faint of heart [1]. For gNewSense we have the advantage that Debian did most of the work for us, i.e. wrap it in a package and solve the dependencies. We just tweak some of the settings (e.g. don't point to addons.mozilla.org). Compiling a source package is merely invoking debuild (well, almost). Compiling from source tarball probably means dependency hell. > 2) Debian Sid already has Iceweasel 31 in their repo (.deb package) > but of course it requires you to puh sid repo it /etc/apt/sources.list > which may break many other things. Can I use it to build a package > for gNewSense ? You'll find yourself with similar dependency troubles. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2014-08/msg00002.html _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev