Install Firefox

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Basanta Shrestha
<basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> Adding fedora=fedora_update and rebuilding didn't work.

And Daniel suggested you didn't do that anyway, there's been a big
change delta since OLPC branched off the F17 release so without
testing I'm not particularly surprised.

> Jerry, As you suggested it installed all the required newer
> firefox,xulrunner and nss... packages but the resulting image couldn't boot
> the XO. Now I am going for your second suggestion. I have created a local
> repo for firefox, xulrunner and other dependencies( 9 altogether) . Could
> you please check if the entries are right?

Does it work if you just yum install them?

> /root/local/.repo
>
> ------------------
> [local]
> name=firefox-xulrunner local
> baseurl=file:///root/local/
> gpgcheck=0
> enabled=1
> ------------------
>
>  olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini
>
> Right below [repos] section
>
> ----------------------
> [custom_repo]
> local=1,firefox,file:///root/local/
> ----------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:22 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson
>> > > <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> 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.
>> > >
>> > > Ah yes, you are right, the latest available versions on koji are
>> > > matching (v17) and built OK. I didn't spot them in the mass of failed
>> > > builds. So the Fedora situation is OK.
>> > >
>> > >> 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
>> > >
>> > > Don't worry, these are not the koji repos you are thinking of. They
>> > > are OLPC's frozen versions of fedora repos from the release's freeze
>> > > date and are not directly from koji - really we should change the
>> > > naming scheme.
>> > >
>> > > And this is the cause of the problem - upon release freeze date, the
>> > > firefox/xulrunner situation was in inconsistent state; this problem
>> > > has been frozen in our repos.
>> > >
>> > > Basanta, I would advise against adding the official fedora-updates
>> > > repo into your build as has been suggested in this thread - while this
>> > > will result in a well matched firefox/xulrunner combination, it will
>> > > bring in a lot of untested package updates that were not part of the
>> > > release and have probably not been tested on OLPC XO.
>> > >
>>
>> That is why later in the thread I suggested to download what yum
>> installed on the XO, then create and use a custom repo for OOB.
>>
>> > > Instead, create a local repo with these 2 packages and add it to your
>> > > build config:
>> > > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=109570
>> > > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=116355
>> >
>> > It will need newer nss*/nspr builds too.
>> >
>> > Peter
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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