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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • Cc: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] stable-rc firefox patch error
  • Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:18:48 -0700

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:58:29PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Neither NSPR nor NSS use /usr/lib/firefox, chrome, or extensions, so
> they're not likely to be involved here. The only patch I added to remove
> NSS build from Firefox is to security/manager tree. Also, I remove
> several directories, like NSPR, DBM, and NSS. The whole thing is in
> mozilla_remove_nspr_nss() function in grimoire FUNCTIONS. The patch
> firefox-init.patch didn't change in any way. In fact, I didn't touch
> that part of the INSTALL at all.

When I did 'rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox*' and recast, it worked fine.

>
> I remember Eric saying that Firefox along with NSPR/NSS rewrite should
> not go into stable-rc, is that not the case?

That's the case with the old stable-rc/0.0 that became stable/0.0.
stable-rc/0.1 has it in it right now for testing. We can choose to pull
it back or leave it in, but we have some time before testing is complete
(perhaps a couple weeks).

>
> I admit there's nothing here that can help you but it looks like the
> spell needs to find a better way of fixing installed files, especially
> if there are other plugins involved. Maybe an XSLT transform or
> something like that?

And the plugin still works even with the rm -rf command above, so I'm
not sure what's going on myself.

Thanks for the reply,

Seth

>
> Sergey.

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