I don't know Remi's repo and I'm wary of including a lot of repos. The only
extra repos I use are elrepo, epel, and adobe. I even have doubts about epel.
Comments? Assurances?
On 06/06/2013 02:31 PM, Graham Allan wrote:
Latest firefox is available pre-packaged for SL at Remi's repo,
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/
we used it for a while when TUV was still supplying a desperately old
version, though more recently switched back to the supplied ESR release.
Graham
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:19:23PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:
I'd appreciate some more details on how you implement the Mozilla update
protocol in an (not quite) enterprise environment. IOW, not hundreds or
thousands of machines but enough to make manual updates unfeasable.
Isn't mozilla's update user-based? When a user launches firefox, the browser
checks for updates, and if there is a newer version, asks the user to download
and install it. What do you do if the user has no privileges to install
software?
Thanks!
On 06/05/2013 08:40 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 06/05/2013 01:57 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
I'd like to hear some pros and cons with using the latest firefox from
mozilla instead of using the ESR version that comes with the stock
distro. I am deploying a web app that fails to render properly. It is a
bug in firefox which has been fixed since version 18.
Naturally, the ESR version is 17. Sigh...
As we were deploying new Nvidia-equipped stereoscopic 3D scientific
visualisation workstations using X86-64 SL6x, we had to make a decision as
to whether to use the SL distribution Firefox (ESR) or the latest production
release. After considering the pros and cons (including that the machines
are behind a network firewall), we selected the current production version.
Thus far, we have had no issues, and have done several updates using the
Mozilla Firefox update technique, not the SL6x update, keeping Firefox up to
the current production release. Part of the reason for the decision was the
observation you also have made; certain defects that were corrected in the
production release did not have the corrections backported to the earlier
release ESR SL version.
Yasha Karant
