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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • To: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Grimoire] Mozilla installation
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 10:31:38 -0400

REF: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3454

Hi All,

As you probably know, Mozilla currently is installed manually in BUILD file. Arwed v. Merkatz found out that issuing `make install' takes care of installation. Another reason to use `make install' is that at least one plug-in (mozilla-bonobo) is using a script `mozilla-config' to install itself correctly, and this only works right if Mozilla installed properly. Downside of making Mozilla spell use `make install' is that it installs everything into /usr/lib/mozilla-$VERSION (it would be /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4b today), including the plugins directory, making it difficult to migrate from one version to Mozilla to another.
What I suggest is that we set up a dedicated Mozilla/Netscape plugin directory, something like /usr/lib/nsplugin or /usr/lib/mozilla-plugin, and link /usr/lib/mozilla-$VERSION/plugins to it on every BUILD. Between `make install' and linking we must copy any plugins installed by new Mozilla into this dedicated directory:

make install &&
cp -f /usr/lib/mozilla-$VERSION/plugins//usr/lib/nsplugin/ &&
rm -fr /usr/lib/mozilla-$VERSION/plugins &&
ln -fns /usr/lib/mozilla-$VERSION/plugins /usr/lib/nsplugin

Mozilla plugin directory may be a Sorcery parameter in /etc/config. Opinions?

Sergey.





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