Bug 158533

Summary:	devhelp not updated for new mozilla
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Jason Bradley Nance <jbnance>
Component:	devhelp	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	djuran, jjneely, mnapolis, ubeck
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Description Jason Bradley Nance 2005-05-23 12:49:43 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Red Hat/1.0.3-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.3

Description of problem:
devhelp requires Mozilla 1.7.7.  Mozilla 1.7.8 was pushed out today as per RHSA-2005:435-06.  Systems with devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4 installed will fail to update to 1.7.8 due to the reliance on Mozilla 1.7.7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run up2date.
2. Choose to update Mozilla.
3. Watch up2date fail to resolve dependencies.
  

Actual Results:  Dependencies fail to resolve, packages go un-updated.

Expected Results:  devhelp updated along with new mozilla to version built against new mozilla.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Yue Shi Lai 2005-05-23 23:20:58 UTC

If this helps anybody, there is a simple workaround:

1. Run "rpm -e devhelp" to remove the dependency.

2. Run "up2date".

3. Download devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm (change i386 to whatever your platform 
is, if neccessary) from RHN.

4. Install with "rpm -ivh --nodeps devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm".

5. Open /usr/bin/devhelp and change (obviously) the line

MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.7

to

MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8

The reason why this is neccessary is because devhelp is linked against 
libgtkembedmoz, which unfortunately sits in a version-specific path. Contrary to 
Comment #1, I think there is no actual need to relink against the new 
libgtkembedmoz.

Maybe it would be a better structure if libraries such as libgtkembedmoz are 
available from /usr/lib/mozilla (e.g. using symbolic links), so that you do not 
have to carry a pile of package dependencies with each Mozilla minor release.

Comment 2 Yue Shi Lai 2005-05-23 23:26:31 UTC

Slight correctio to Comment #2: It is also linked against libxpcom.so, and 
furthermore, the libraries expect themselves to be inside a version specific 
Mozilla directory, so my last paragraph is wrong.

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-25 11:15:33 UTC

Fixed, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-435.html