Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 433626
Firefox and xulrunner version mismatch
Last modified: 2008-02-22 21:52:37 EST
Description of problem: The current version of Firefox in Rawhide is a 3.0b4pre, and as such the xulrunner dependency has been bumped up. The corresponding version of xulrunner in Rawhide is older (see version numbers below), so Firefox aborts when started. (Curious: was this not detected at compile time? Or was Firefox compiled with a newer version of xulrunner, but for some reason the proper Requires: is not automatically detected?) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.0-0.beta3.22.nightly20080215.fc9 xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install firefox 2. firefox Actual results: Error: Platform version '1.9b3pre' is not compatible with minVersion >= 1.9b4pre maxVersion <= 1.9b4pre Expected results: Should work. Or should not have installed, since the matching xulrunner is not in Rawhide Additional info:
Works with the current xulrunner. Still, shouldn't the xulrunner package provides a more fine-grained API version (something in-between the current gecko-libs=1.9 and xulrunner=1.9.0-beta3.bla) that the firefox package can then Requires: ? That way we won't get mismatched updates. Problem should be moot with stable versions, anyway.
I'm just evil and want to get people in the habit of yum updateing both. :-) This won't be an issue in the final builds, you're right. Closing this one out.