[oi-dev] Firefox and packages in general

[E W]

That would be awesome!

Thanks for the notes.

I've got an oi VM running now that I should be able to break and roll back
if needed.

What sort of availability do you have for that kind of correspondence?




On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Nikola M. <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/21/13 01:21 AM, E W wrote:
> >
> > So, I'm new to OI myself and finally made the jump from using the live
> > DVD to an on HDD install.
> >
> > How do we go about getting newer releases on specific packages?
> >
> > I'm typing this in Firefox and wondering how to get a new version of
> > that running. Based on the Package Manager, 3.6.12 is as new as it gets?
> >
> > I'm not a developer, but am willing to jump in and learn.
> >
> > Is it just a matter of there not being someone to create a build and
> > package it?
> >
> > Is it an issue with packages available upstream?
> >
> > Is this something that can be contributed
> >
> Hi,
> Besides installing from FTP contributed Mozilla site (Ginn Chen/Oracle
> contribute this), in , like, /opt/sfw/lib/thunderbird or something, of
> Firefox 21 or 22
>  (where 22 does not have HTML5 audio working on Sunos
> -Openindiana/Solaris11 and HTML5 works with --enable-pulseaudio on S11,
> but pulseaudio still needs packaging for Openindiana
> and Ginn have a patch for FF 23 for Sun Audio)
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876327 ,
>
> There is updated one in Hipster rolling release packages
> (pkg.openindiana.org/hipster) to 10.0.12 ESR Firefox that can be updated
> to from last /dev you have installed
> (keep that /dev Boot environment for reference and testing update to a8).
> Problems in Hipster currently include flash player crashing on youtube
> (works on 151a7).
>
> To compile Firefox, one needs aether patched Solaris Studio 2010/08/13
> or one past 12.3 (requires support contract with Oracle) or using GCC.
> (Ginn is using Studio).
> If you are interested, we can connect and work together in learning how
> to build, send and recieve patches, publish in IPS etc.
>
> Nikola M.
>
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