Some thoughts about the handling of xulrunner-1.9.1 et al.
Axel Beckert
abe at deuxchevaux.org
Sat Jul 11 14:50:42 UTC 2009
Hi Mike,
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:30:20AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > I call either "xulrunner-1.9 path/to/application.ini" or
> > "xulrunner-1.9.1 path/to/application.ini". Works fine(*).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > (*) The other method of installung xulrunner applications I know is to
> > copy (symlinking is said not to work) xulrunner-stub to the
> > appliation's directory and rename it. This obviously doesn't work
> > out for packaging xulrunner appliations.
>
> Look at iceweasel, it does exactly that: symlinking xulrunner-stub and
> name it firefox-bin (this name is for backwards compatibility). Note the
> symlinking thing only works with debian xulrunner.
Now that's cool! You guys really rock! No idea why the Mozilla guys
dislike the Debian way, but I really love it. :-)
> There is an extra thing iceweasel does, is to symlink the xulrunner path
> to /usr/lib/iceweasel/xulrunner, which forces which xulrunner to use and
> avoid the xulrunner-stub to look in /etc/gre.d.
I'll definitely have a look at these things for my conkeror package.
> > > In any case, you can set the MOZ_GRE_CONF environment variable to the
> > > full path of the file in /etc/gre.d containing info about the version of
> > > xulrunner you'd want to use.
> >
> > Doesn't seem to work if I call
> >
> > env MOZ_GRE_CONF=/etc/gre.d/1.9.1.system.conf xulrunner-1.9
> >
> > Or does that only work when xulrunner-stub is used?
>
> It only works when the stub is used. Obviously, if you run xulrunner-1.9
> directly, you want to use xulrunner 1.9 ;)
Well, 1.9.1 is also some kind of 1.9. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for all the enlightenment! (I use ratpoison, though. ;-)
Regards, Axel
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