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

Hans J Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 15:44:15 UTC 2015


So the desktop will stay alive until sunrays are finally eol-ed?

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 28 apr 2015 17:14 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>:

> I meant that no one had paid attention to updating the web pages and
> instructions for external people to build the desktop since OpenSolaris
> died.  The only reason that page exists is because I migrated it from
> OpenSolaris - no one else cared to, and no one else seems to notice if
> I update the hg repo or not.
>
>         -alan-
>
> On 04/28/15 07:58 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote:
>
>> 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
>> <mailto: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>
>>         <mailto: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>
>>              <mailto: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
>>     <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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