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Re: [LUG] Packaging Firefox Nightly for Debian

 

On 08/06/13 12:17, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> Doesn't Nightly update itself anyway? If you're looking at distributing a Nightly 
> build top other machines, would it not be worth looking at an alternative 
> distribution method - maybe rsync from a single updated Nightly?
>

Not on my watch it doesn't - *nothing* ever updates itself on systems I
look after. Nothing so much as blinks on anything I'm admining without
my express permission.

Your idea is perfectly sound, but in this case not workable - I need to
push regular updates to disparate machines on different customer
networks, at different times and on a varying schedule. To fit in with
draconian change control procedures (that are mostly my doing), I really
have to be pushing signed and checksummed packages via a conventional
and auditable channel: ie, apt via cron jobs, pulling from my own
private repo.

I really don't know why Firefox is such a beast to package properly -
there are excellent instructions on the mozilla developers page for
almost all aspects of building the damn thing except for linux
packaging. I can roll windows and mac versions easily.

Regards

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