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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:37:17PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> 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.

It's the firefox-init patch that works around the problem of users
having to run firefox as root first before it works as user.
See http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8874 for the discussion
about it. I think the easiest way to get it working is to remove the
files the patch creates in INSTALL. 

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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