[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 18.03.21 um 22:03 schrieb Stephan Althaus:
> On 03/18/21 09:53 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>> Am 17.03.21 um 14:09 schrieb Gary Mills:
>>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:27:31PM +0100, Carsten Grzemba via
>>> openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>>> I made available a firefox package 68esr for testing
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately for the moment there is a restriction!
>>>> There is a setting in /etc/system necessary:
>>>>
>>>> set _userlimit=0x7fffc0000000
>>>>
>>>> whithout this, FF will raise a assertion in JS code.
>>> It sounds as if we need the illumos developers to make the appropriate
>>> change to the illumos kernel or to the linker so that this setting
>>> will not be necessary.  An illumos bug report would be a good starting
>>> point.
>>>
>>>
>> As an interim solution we can add an overlay in our illumos-gate build.
>> /etc/system.d/ would be the right place in my opinion.
>>
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>
> Please be patient with me, i don't have much knowledge of the OI
> internals.
>
> But i would think of shipping a simple file like
> /etc/system.d/firefox_userlimit  with the firefox package,
> as users without ff78 won't need this global setting.
>
> (i have
>
> $ ls -l /etc/system.d/sata_auto_online
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         318 Jul  8  2020
> /etc/system.d/sata_auto_online
> which is a plain file, too )
>
> Just my 2c
>
> Stephan
>
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Sure, this would also be possible. It is a design decission. For me the
Linux compability is the main aspect, firefox being the first app that
needs it.
If more packages will need this (a newer thunderbird will be a hot
candidate) you'll get superfluous files in /etc/system.d.

Andreas