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Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: removing firefox-2 from the repo


From: Karl Goetz
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: removing firefox-2 from the repo
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:07:21 +0930

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:05:05 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:52 +0200
> > crap0101 <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> Looking in the repos i see firefox (package 'firefox-2') is still
> >> present. We don't should remove it?
> >>
> >> I'm asking this because reading
> >> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00150
> >> i don't understand if is good have it in the repos or not.
> > 
> > IIRC it should be removed. Like ndiswrapper, I think its only there
> > because Builder isnt processing it correctly come remove time.
> > kk
> 
> I think I found out why: do-update has the following line
> 
> DONT_CHROOT=1 ensure_updated firefox-2.0 firefox-2.0 $RELEASE$i 
> "./remove-package firefox-2.0" ''
> 
> which is like the one for Firefox 3, but with s/3/2/g. But the
> package name for FF 3 is firefox-3.0, whereas the package name for FF
> 2 is firefox-2. So I think that line should be
> 
> DONT_CHROOT=1 ensure_updated firefox-2 firefox-2 $RELEASE$i 
> "./remove-package firefox-2" ''

Well spotted.
Apon further investigation, it looks like the source package 'firefox'
builds the binary 'firefox-2', and the source 'firefox-3.0' builds the
binary 'firefox'.
Nothing confusing there at all!
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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