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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

I had a working firefox 1.0.3 from the previous version of stable and 
then decided to try to get 1.0.4 in stable-rc working.

My idea was that it would figure out what to do to upgrade.  Everything 
built according to plan, then an error happened after all the building 
and installing was done:

patching file chrome/chrome.rdf
patching file chrome/overlayinfo/browser/content/overlays.rdf
patching file chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content/overlays.rdf
patching file chrome/overlayinfo/inspector/content/overlays.rdf
patching file chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content/overlays.rdf
patching file chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content/overlays.rdf
The next patch would create the file components/xpti.dat,
which already exists!  Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file components/xpti.dat.rej
The next patch would create the file components.ini,
which already exists!  Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file components.ini.rej
The next patch would create the file defaults.ini,
which already exists!  Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file defaults.ini.rej
patching file extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf
patching file extensions/Extensions.rdf
patching file extensions/installed-extensions-processed.txt

The only thing I had done to firefox was to install the googlerank 
plugin as a non-root user.  In any case, the build failed at this point.  
I don't think we can expect users to know they need to rm -rf something, 
however I could put this in the next release notes, or we could have an 
upgrade process that works perfectly.  Should we do the latter?  And if 
we do the former, what do I need to do to get it to build, just rm -rf 
/usr/lib/firefox and try again?  I'm not sure exactly what's going on 
under the hood of the nspr and nss spells at this point or even if it's 
near completeness.  Any input is appreciated.

Thanks,

Seth

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