[4709] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Mozilla Firefox & Sun Patches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Jul 23 16:48:33 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Charles F Dominguez <cfdoming@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, software-suggestions@mit.edu, firebird@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:48:30 -0400
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 16:08, Charles F Dominguez wrote:
> The first 3 are part of the Solaris 9 4/04 release
> (http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-3804/6mjcffkq1?a=view) that Athena 9.3
> uses (http://web.mit.edu/olh/Release/9.3/index.html), but they do not
> appear to be installed on Athena.
The problem here is that mozilla's check of the patch level is not
very smart, so complains about not having patches which apply to
packages we do not install. The first three patches mentioned apply
to packages containing the Asian iconv modules for UTF-8, and Arabic
fonts, which we do not include in the Athena release.
As for the fourth patch, we currently have 112785-33 (one less than
the rev it is looking for), and Sun is now up to rev 42. I believe
that rev 34 does not contain any critical fixes for mozilla, and that
the checker is again not being smart enough.
For more information, please see:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233863#c12
If users encounter real problems due to the patch 112785 rev level,
or actually need the missing packages, we can consider updating the
release accordingly. Otherwise, I suggest disabling the patch
checker, as suggested in the mozilla bug report, if at all possible.
Bob
