[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

Hans J Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 14:58:20 UTC 2015


Is the desktop dying, then?

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 28 apr 2015 16:52 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>:

> There's still some info on
>         https://java.net/projects/solaris-desktop/pages/Building
> though I have no idea how useful or current it is, since no one has been
> paying
> attention to it since OpenSolaris died.
>
>         -alan-
>
> On 04/28/15 01:06 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote:
>
>> So I need to learn about spec files, mercurial and how to find my way
>> around the
>> Solaris desktop source code..
>>
>> Can you suggest where to go for tutorials and docs?
>>
>> Hans J. Albertsson
>>  From my Nexus 5
>>
>> Den 28 apr 2015 08:54 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" <
>> alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>> <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>>:
>>
>>     On 04/27/15 11:48 PM, Hans J Albertsson wrote:
>>
>>         I suppose they're all under "patches"?
>>
>>
>>     Yes.
>>
>>         Are there any patches for Firefox 31.6?
>>
>>
>>     Solaris isn't shipping 31.6 yet, but there are patches for 31.1 there.
>>     You'll need to check the firefox.spec file to find out what's applied,
>>     since the version numbers in the patch names are often meaningless,
>> since
>>     the patches didn't get renamed when carried forward to new versions.
>>
>>     You might find it easier to browse the version at:
>>     https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files
>>     or you can hg clone it to look through locally.
>>
>>     --
>>              -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>>     <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>>               Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>>
>>
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>


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