Firefox moving to 4 week releases

Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by aquabeagle on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:30PM (#20999145)

Mozilla only provides binaries for Linux 32-bit, Linux 64-bit, macOS, win32, and win64:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/69.0/

All of the various Linux distributions just repackage those binaries. iOS and Android are distributed only through the App Store and Google Play.

The BSDs and other ("tier 3") platforms have to compile from source and distribute their own packages:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Supported_b...

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by kingofpandora on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:07PM (#20999509)

> All of the various Linux distributions just repackage those binaries.

Source please.

Never mind, it's simply wrong so don't even worry about it!

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:41PM (#21000819)

Even if you’re right and they’re wrong, the snark was unwarranted IMO. You should either correct the GP or request more information (like a source), not ask rhetorically.

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by ajsnigrutin on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:21AM (#21002797)

Gentoo does it for firefox-bin:

/usr/portage/www-client/firefox-bin/firefox-bin-69.0.ebuild

    MOZ_HTTP_URI="https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/${MOZ_PN}/releases/"
    ...
    SRC_URI="${SRC_URI}
        amd64? ( ${MOZ_HTTP_URI%/}/${MOZ_PV}/linux-x86_64/en-US/${MOZ_P}.tar.bz2 -> ${PN}_x86_64-${PV}.tar.bz2 )
        x86? ( ${MOZ_HTTP_URI%/}/${MOZ_PV}/linux-i686/en-US/${MOZ_P}.tar.bz2 -> ${PN}_i686-${PV}.tar.bz2 )"

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by brennebeck on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:34AM (#21003360)

Doesn’t gentoo essentially do that for (most?) everything?

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by moviuro on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:55AM (#21003683)

Only massive packages (firefox, chromium, KDE, Gnome, etc.). The entire promise of gentoo is the opposite: fine-tuning and local ~~heater~~ compilation.

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by earenndil on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:37PM (#20999225)

Most linuces build their own firefoxes from source, same as the BSDs.

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by ggg3 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:37PM (#21001161)

it mostly was the case to remove the logo at some point in time :/

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by acqq on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:35PM (#20999199)

> All of the various Linux distributions just repackage those binaries

Debian and Ubuntu don’t build from sources?

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by throwaway170919 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:22PM (#21000216)

They do.

You can notice by looking at the build time in the version string.

This makes it impossible to share a profile between two GNU/Linux distributions (or even the official binary and the distribution binary) without hacking with the current versions, even if they are effectively the same version: one will complain that the profile has been run with a more recent version.

(But I sure expect and want my distributions to rebuild Firefox - I trust Debian for making sure no bit of proprietary code is here, and makes tracking opt-in, more than Mozilla)

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by sha666sum on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:32AM (#21003864)

Although this comment was already debunked, I'll add Arch's Firefox PKGBUILD here [1].

And to save you a click, they compile it from a source tarball.

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by JetSpiegel on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:00PM (#21008111)

They even need the Google API key...

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...

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