Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145752
Build Liferea against Firefox instead of Mozilla
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:58 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Installation of the rpm fails asking for the following files: error: Failed dependencies: libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by liferea-0.6.4-1.b.i386 libxpcom.so is needed by liferea-0.6.4-1.b.i386 To resolve dependency, yum chooses to suggest installation of Mozilla. This is an FC3 installation that is using Firefox. Both files could already be found in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/ directory. Why require installation of mozilla 1.7.3? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): liferea-0.6.4-1.b How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fresh FC3 with only firefox 1.0, not mozilla... 2. Download rpm from Fedora Pre-Extras 3. rpm -ivh liferea-0.6.4-1.b.i386.rpm Actual Results: Installation fails, with missing dependencies.... Expected Results: Package should install... :-) Additional info:
The main reason were using Mozilla to build the Mozilla plugin, is because we're tracking the upstream package. In addition, I'm not even sure that there is a firefox-devel package to build against currently in FC3.
> Both files could already be found in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/ > directory. Why require installation of mozilla 1.7.3? Because actually the gecko runtime environment is only provided by the mozilla package: $ rpm --redhatprovides libgtkembedmoz.so libxpcom.so mozilla-1.7.3-17 mozilla-1.7.3-17 A few other packages also depend on it: $ rpm --redhatrequires libgtkembedmoz.so libxpcom.so devhelp-0.9.2-2 epiphany-1.4.4-4 devhelp-0.9.2-2 epiphany-1.4.4-4 mozilla-1.7.3-17 mozilla-devel-1.7.3-17 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.3-17 mozilla-mail-1.7.3-17 Currently, the only way out would be to split off a liferea-mozilla package for just the 15K small gecko/mozilla rendering plugin. Not worthwhile for FC3. But could be reconsidered for FC4 if nothing changes with regard to the gecko provider (we build against mozilla-devel, too).
Is it perhaps a change in the packaging of firefox-1.0 that I am requesting then? To have the package admit that it is installing/providing those particular files? What I mean is, I only have firefox installed at the moment, and those particular files being requested can both be found in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/. What I am apparently being dense about, is why can't liferea and the others like epiphany simply be happy with what firefox is providing? I guess I am not understanding the statements of building against mozilla-devel, perhaps. Thanks for your patience.
Yes, what you have in mind is not available [yet]. The Gecko engine is only provided by the mozilla packages. Hence we build against 'mozilla-devel', and the automatic dependencies are satisfied by the 'mozilla' package. The firefox packages as found in Fedora Core do not supply Gecko development files (no firefox-devel package) and neither the Gecko Runtime Environment as shown in comment 2. Btw, I've talked to Dag Wieers, who also provides a liferea package, and he is not fond of a liferea-mozilla split-off either. Means we will very likely release the 0.9.0b update as found in Fedora Extras CVS unchanged.
Wasn't there talk awhile back, about Mozilla separating the libraries into a serarate package like libmozilla? I vaguely remember reading something about it last year, but since I don't keep a close eye on Mozilla developement I not 100% sure.
Here's a further update on library separation: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-May/msg00105.html
Looks like there is a firefox-devel package in Rawhide now, so once FC6T2 comes out and I get it installed, I'll start building liferea against that.
Liferea is being built against firefox as of version 1.0.19 in devel.