[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox68esr for testing

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/18/21 10:09 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> 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
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A good point.

Thanks for clarification !

:-)