Re: firefox 1.5
Hello. ulrich steffens: i'm not that much of a 'break my ubuntu' guy, so maybe I'll just stick with a vmware-ubuntu and experiment a bit. You can always fetch the official Mozilla binary and install that in /opt, /home/ulrich/bin or whereever you please. IMHO it's much saner than using Firefox through VMware. :o) fortunately there was a german computermagazine which had a 1 year license for vmware featured on one of the attached cds. Care to share which magazine and which issue...? :o) Cheers, -- Shot -- A 'lame' server is a server that is SUPPOSED to be authoritative, but, when asked, says: 'Me? I know nothing, I'm from Madrid!' -- Ralf Hildebrandt == http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ === http://shot.pl/1/125/ === signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: firefox 1.5
Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote: Hello. ulrich steffens: i'm not that much of a 'break my ubuntu' guy, so maybe I'll just stick with a vmware-ubuntu and experiment a bit. You can always fetch the official Mozilla binary and install that in /opt, /home/ulrich/bin or whereever you please. IMHO it's much saner than using Firefox through VMware. :o) That's what I plan on doing when I get my Linux box back up and running. Screw Ubuntu (hey I rhymed! ;-) )! I'm not waiting 5 months for you to get your act together. Besides if I install it as a local user I'll be able to the new built-in patching/updating system. On a somewhat related note: I wonder who the heck is supposed to use that anyway? Linux, Windows Mac all don't let an ordinary user update software anyway. But I digress... -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: firefox 1.5
Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: hi all, since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this week, will there be a backport for firefox? i could imagine that this is not an easy task, but firefox 1.5 introduces some nice enhancements like svg, canvas-tags, etc which are quite neat to have :) There was a reply from John on the forums stating pretty much its not going to happen. To many changes will lead to massive work and personally I wouldn't want that risk of possible breakage on anyone. I also heard theres a lot of new libs and all so thats a potential no no. I'll cross my fingers and hope Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5.01 soon. -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: firefox 1.5
Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 11:53 -0500 schrieb John Dong: It's still in consideration whether or not it'll happen. Right now, there's a forum sticky in which I'm documenting my progress towards doing it. Currently, around 50 source packages depend on firefox and will likely require rebuilding. In addition, whether or not security updates can be assured is unclear. I'm providing EXPERIMENTAL packages at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125877package_id=171041 for the impatient early testers. I'm uploading source packages too but that takes so damn long... (compiled with no modifications except changelog). Currently, the locale packages don't install anymore after doing this, and several programs (in the big list of apt-get rdepends) segfault without a rebuild. A Firefox 1.5 backport is certainly possible, but it'll be a struggle and a lot more thought is required before recklessly pushing the backport button :) On 12/1/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. ulrich steffens: since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this week, will there be a backport for firefox? Most probably - no. There are too many components depending on Firefox. For example, I've rebuilt Dapper's 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 for my Breezy install and Firefox works as a browser, but the System | Help is broken (most probably Yelp needs a rebuild against the new firefox-dev). Cheers, -- Shot -- thanks for the answers! i'm not that much of a 'break my ubuntu' guy, so maybe I'll just stick with a vmware-ubuntu and experiment a bit. fortunately there was a german computermagazine which had a 1 year license for vmware featured on one of the attached cds. should buy me enuogh time to test 1.5... have a nice day ulrich -- ulrich steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barfuss-jerusalem.org -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
firefox 1.5
hi all, since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this week, will there be a backport for firefox? i could imagine that this is not an easy task, but firefox 1.5 introduces some nice enhancements like svg, canvas-tags, etc which are quite neat to have :) thanks for all the work! ulrich -- ulrich steffens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barfuss-jerusalem.org -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: firefox 1.5
Hello. ulrich steffens: since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this week, will there be a backport for firefox? Most probably - no. There are too many components depending on Firefox. For example, I've rebuilt Dapper's 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 for my Breezy install and Firefox works as a browser, but the System | Help is broken (most probably Yelp needs a rebuild against the new firefox-dev). Cheers, -- Shot -- We're back to the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers. -- Linus Torvalds == http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ === http://shot.pl/1/125/ === signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
Re: firefox 1.5
It's still in consideration whether or not it'll happen. Right now, there's a forum sticky in which I'm documenting my progress towards doing it.Currently, around 50 source packages depend on firefox and will likely require rebuilding. In addition, whether or not security updates can be assured is unclear. I'm providing EXPERIMENTAL packages at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125877package_id=171041 for the impatient early testers. I'm uploading source packages too but that takes so damn long... (compiled with no modifications except changelog). Currently, the locale packages don't install anymore after doing this, and several programs (in the big list of apt-get rdepends) segfault without a rebuild. A Firefox 1.5 backport is certainly possible, but it'll be a struggle and a lot more thought is required before recklessly pushing the backport button :)On 12/1/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello.ulrich steffens: since firefox 1.5 was released earlier this week, will there be a backport for firefox?Most probably - no. There are too many components depending on Firefox. For example, I've rebuilt Dapper's 1.4.99+1.5rc3.dfsg-1ubuntu3 for myBreezy install and Firefox works as a browser, but the System | Help isbroken (most probably Yelp needs a rebuild against the new firefox-dev). Cheers,-- Shot--We're back to the times when men were men and wrotetheir own device drivers. -- Linus Torvalds== http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ === http://shot.pl/1/125/ ===-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)iD8DBQFDjyX1i/mCfdEo8UoRAlVZAKCUOiK7mW1uPd9lS/Xysl6Pl2A+rACglkcH P5Y7mNuJE2h2yOP2xYP+jrU==VgeT-END PGP SIGNATURE---ubuntu-backports mailing listubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
