Install Firefox

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:14 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
> # yum install firefox on XO actually downloaded new set of packages
> listed below and firefox now works
> 
> (1/9): firefox-17.0.1-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 25 MB 05:27 
> (2/9): nspr-4.9.6-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 94 kB 00:02 
> (3/9): nss-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 640 kB 00:17 
> (4/9): nss-softokn-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 210 kB 00:04 
> (5/9): nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 130 kB 00:01 
> (6/9): nss-sysinit-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 39 kB 00:00 
> (7/9): nss-tools-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 325 kB 00:04 
> (8/9): nss-util-3.14.3-1.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 53 kB 00:01 
> (9/9): xulrunner-17.0.1-3.fc17.armv7hl.rpm | 12 MB 02:29 
> 
> 
> Now, as a solution I am planning to reside these packages on the build
> system and have olpc-os-builder install these packages during build
> time. I do I accomplish this? 
> 
> 

Try enabling the fedora-updates repo in OOB, add to your repo definition
above the olpc_frozen definition:

fedora=fedora-updates

After the build check the *package.txt file in build/output to confirm
what was installed and maybe do a diff between an older build to gauge
what else was changed.

Jerry


> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 06:50 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>         > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Basanta Shrestha
>         > <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>         > > Please check my repo list at this configuration file.
>         > > http://pastebin.ca/2384881
>         > >
>         > > and xulrunner and firefox version
>         > > xulrunner-13.0-1.fc17.armv7vl
>         > > firefox-12.0-1.fc17.armv7hl
>         >
>         > Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and
>         matching) builds
>         > for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching
>         (so
>         > 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest stable
>         updates
>         > into the build you would have matching ones AFAICT from koji
>         so
>         > there's some other issue.
>         >
>         > I'm not sure what the following lines translate to but you
>         should
>         > never use the koji repositories as repos as they contain all
>         sorts of
>         > randomly tagged bits that the release repos don't.
>         >
>         > olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl
>         > olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl-updates-12.1.0
>         >
>         > Peter
>         >
>         
>         
>         Thought that was the official way of using OOB once the
>         release enters
>         the frozen state. Please advise.
>         
>         Jerry
>         
>         > > Thank you.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jerry Vonau
>         <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>         > >>
>         > >> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 08:08 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>         > >> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Basanta Shrestha
>         > >> > <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>         > >> > > Adding firefox did install firefox but gave following
>         error while
>         > >> > > trying to
>         > >> > > execute on XO:
>         > >> > > --------------------
>         > >> > > $ firefox
>         > >> > > Error: Platform version '13.0' is not compatible with
>         > >> > > minVersion >= 12.0
>         > >> > > maxVersion <= 12.0
>         > >> > > ---------------------
>         > >> >
>         > >>
>         > >> Hi Basanta,
>         > >>
>         > >> Think this has something to do with firefox wanting a
>         specific xulrunner
>         > >> version. Can you confirm what version is installed with:
>         rpm -q
>         > >> xulrunner.
>         > >>
>         > >> I have a workaround that I used with F14 that should
>         still work with
>         > >> this situation. Which repos are enabled in
>         olpc-so-builder when you
>         > >> generate the image?
>         > >>
>         > >> Jerry
>         > >>
>         > >>
>         > >> > Looks like an incompatibility with xulrunner, which
>         hasn't been
>         > >> > successfully built on F17 in a while:
>         > >> >
>         http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=10131
>         > >> > Maybe Peter has some comments.
>         > >> >
>         > >> > You could try an older version of firefox to match the
>         latest (old)
>         > >> > version of xulrunner available.
>         > >> >
>         > >> > Daniel
>         > >> > _______________________________________________
>         > >> > Devel mailing list
>         > >> > Devel at lists.laptop.org
>         > >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>         > >>
>         > >>
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > --
>         > > Basanta Shrestha
>         > > Network Engineer
>         > > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>         > > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>         > > Cell: +977.9818 605110
>         > > http://www.olenepal.org
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>         
>         
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Basanta Shrestha
> Network Engineer
> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
> Cell: +977.9818 605110
> http://www.olenepal.org