Package Details: firefox-opensuse-bin 125.0.3-1.1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-opensuse-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: firefox-opensuse-bin
Description: Standalone web browser from mozilla.org with openSUSE patches
Upstream URL: https://en.opensuse.org/Firefox
Keywords: browser gecko web
Licenses: GPL, MPL, LGPL
Conflicts: firefox
Provides: firefox
Submitter: HTV04
Maintainer: Wyn
Last Packager: Wyn
Votes: 3
Popularity: 0.52
First Submitted: 2023-11-28 22:28 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-06 02:19 (UTC)

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HTV04 commented on 2023-12-02 21:44 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-20 06:41 (UTC) by HTV04)

firefox-opensuse-bin is different from the firefox package because it includes various patches by the openSUSE team, including patches to better integrate with KDE (i.e. file dialogs). More info: https://github.com/openSUSE/firefox-maintenance

This package is not to be confused with firefox-kde-opensuse. Although both firefox-opensuse-bin and firefox-kde-opensuse provide better KDE integration, the latter has an additional patch from Ubuntu that provides global menu support. More info: https://gitlab.com/Thaodan/firefox-kde-opensuse/-/blob/master/README.org

Finally, despite using the openSUSE patches, this package contains none of the openSUSE Firefox branding, which is contained separately from the Firefox RPM.

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HTV04 commented on 2024-02-01 17:28 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-01 17:28 (UTC) by HTV04)

@Melechtna Sorry if I'm wrong, but your link appears to redirect to the standard openSUSE oss repo, which has the same problem as the mozilla repo where only a couple of variants of the same package are stored before being deleted. The only difference between the two repos is that the former updates slower and recieves less hotfixes, which I guess would be more stable at the cost of slower updates.

I would much rather be able to have the package update itself automatically, but I don't know of any APIs that can retrieve the latest package version and release. Again, I can technically hack together a solution that reads this data from the various repo XMLs, but that would not only be hard to implement, given how PKGBUILDs work (I would likely need to write a separate shell script that does the dirty work), but also very hard to maintain.

Melechtna commented on 2024-02-01 13:13 (UTC)

Posting this once more, because I keep forgetting to enable notifications, because I'm a basket case.

Melechtna commented on 2024-02-01 13:11 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't get a notification for your response, not sure exactly what you did, but every time I'd go to update, the link would be invalid, and I'd need to modify the package build to actually point to the right link, which is the one I provided. When I came here to see what was going wrong, the link that was in the sources, would always load a page that stated "resource unavailable" or something similar, so perhaps it's an issue with the window of time before the next update is pushed and this repo, I'm not entirely sure.

Regardless, if the link being used is temporary, which it seems to be, and I happen to update "too late", then probably not the best idea to be using this link method, as the one I posted is more permanent/long lasting, as this is where I'd have to redirect package build every time to get the update to go through.

HTV04 commented on 2024-01-31 22:59 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-31 23:09 (UTC) by HTV04)

@Melechtna Can you elaborate? It just appears that the rpm release updated from 3.2 to 3.3 on the Mozilla repo, so I need to update it again.

I'm not sure how to obtain this package version automatically without a lot of XML hackery that would make the PKGBUILD much harder to maintain if something changed. If you have any pointers on how I could achieve this, that would be much appreciated.

EDIT: Updated to 122.0-3.3, it should build now.

Melechtna commented on 2024-01-31 22:34 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-31 22:37 (UTC) by Melechtna)

Do me a favor, click on the link you have in your sources, I'm tired of correcting it every update.

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory/standard/x86_64/MozillaFirefox-122.0-2.1.x86_64.rpm

Is a valid link for example.

HTV04 commented on 2023-12-02 21:44 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-20 06:41 (UTC) by HTV04)

firefox-opensuse-bin is different from the firefox package because it includes various patches by the openSUSE team, including patches to better integrate with KDE (i.e. file dialogs). More info: https://github.com/openSUSE/firefox-maintenance

This package is not to be confused with firefox-kde-opensuse. Although both firefox-opensuse-bin and firefox-kde-opensuse provide better KDE integration, the latter has an additional patch from Ubuntu that provides global menu support. More info: https://gitlab.com/Thaodan/firefox-kde-opensuse/-/blob/master/README.org

Finally, despite using the openSUSE patches, this package contains none of the openSUSE Firefox branding, which is contained separately from the Firefox RPM.

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