Firefox moving to 4 week releases

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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