Firefox 3

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Matsuura San,
>
> MATSUURA Takanori writes:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now I put my firefox-trunk (3.0b2pre now) package at
>> http://t-matsuu.sakura.ne.jp/install-memo/fc/
>
> I have been building from your srpms with excellent results--until very
> recently. Beginning AFTER firefox-3.0a9pre-2007102116_trunk.fc7, I am
> unable to rpmbuild either F-7 or F-8, including your srpm of the new FF3
> Beta. I get:
>
> error: line 1212: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': - Initial RPM release.
>
> error: Failed to find Provides:
>    File listed twice: /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0b2pre/updater.ini
>    line 1212: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': - Initial RPM release.
>
>    Failed to find Provides:
>    line 1212: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/': - Initial RPM release.
>
>    Failed to find Provides:Release: 2%{?dist}spk
>
> Since 1212 is actually the eof of the .spec, I suspect some other subtle
> problem that I have not been able to identify.
>
> PS: Thank you again for making these srpms available over the past
> months. They have been very helpful.
>
> Janina
>
>> The package is based on firefox-2.0.0.8-2.
>> It includes some adhoc artifice to success to build.
>>
>> libgtkembedmoz.so and libxpcom.so is not built by default. now.
>> This change may affects yelp and devhelp (and AdobeReader-8.*) packages.
>>
>> Feel free to incorporate to firefox package in Fedora.
>>
>> regards,
>


OK, I added %{mozappdir}/crashreporter to the %files list, and it 
built successfully.  Someone should probably take a look at what to do 
about the fact that the process for finding provides is presenting an 
arglist to sed that needs to be split up somehow.

           HTH.

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