[27056] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena machines [help.mit.edu #389071]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Fri Mar 9 16:30:31 2007
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>> [bmfay - Thu Mar 01 23:56:02 2007]:
>>
>> Not sure if this is the case for all athena machines, but at least
>> the
>> ones in the 5th floor of the student center seem to all have firefox
>> 1.5. I don't know if you are the ones to ask about this, but doesn't
>> firefox seem like the kind of thing that should be
>> regularly/automatically updated.. or at least updated once in a
>> while..
>> and, also, wouldn't it be relatively easy (given you have
>> permissions)
>> to just update all machines.
Hi.
Thanks for your bug report. Assuming you are questioning why we
have not updated to Firefox 2.0 yet, we decided explicitly to stay with
Firefox 1.5.0.x on Athena for now, primarily because Red Hat has
not yet provided an RPM for Firefox 2.0 in RHEL 4. Please note that
we do in fact update Firefox 1.5.0.x regularly in the Athena release;
we currently run 1.5.0.9, and plan to deploy the recently announced
1.5.0.10 soon. We will likely update to 2.0 this summer.
Robert Basch
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services & Technology
