Re: updated mozsupport package

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:52:30 UTC, Andreas Kohl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Doug Bissett schrieb:
> > None of that requires WarpIn, but your list is far from complete.
> 
> So which package (non-warpin) contains gcc1.dll and its forwarders, 
> please? I know only this big gcc zip files from netlabs.

GCC1 is in:

> http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/i386/libgcc1-4.9.2.1-3.oc00.i386.rpm

The forwarders are in:

> http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/i386/libgcc-fwd-4.9.2.1-3.oc00.i386.rpm

I don't know, nor do I care, if they buit ZIP files for them. You can 
unpackage the rpm files with 7Z. You can also use the eComStation 
Archive manager program, as long as you have that installed, with all 
of the required support. What you do with the extracted files, is 
probably 100% guesswork.

> > Please don't distribute packages that are not complete. You need GCC1
> > plus ALL of the forwarders, and LIBC066 plus ALL of the forwarders.
> 
> I'm not a distributor, what you're talking about?

My suggestion is to Steve.

> > This stuff is hard enough to sort out, without supplying incomplete
> > packages, which can leave a user with down level versions, when they
> > think they have everything that they need. It may not affect the
> > Mozilla stuff (in this case), but other things are going to have
> > problems, eventually.
> >
> > I will point out, that it took me about 2 minutes (plus download time)
> > to get all of this right, using the Arca Noae Package Manager to run
> > YUM. It is definitely a terrible way to do things, but it is far
> > better than spending days trying to figure it out for yourself.
> 
> But ANPM requires WarpIn and some other small libraries. How it fits to 
> the first sentence? I look from another perspective not a full-armoured 
> super-user or developer system but a clean network ready installation 
> done the CID way.
> 
> Sorry, just my thoughts.
> 
> Andreas

I pity you. You will spend half your life trying to sort it out by 
yourself, but so be it, if that is what you want. Personally, I will 
bite the bullet, and use the Arca noae Package Manager to do the 
management. It isn't likely to get any easier. 

The other options are to stop updating, or quit using the ported 
programs.

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