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#1 2017-05-23 07:02:52
- enguerran
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Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
I would like to know your strategies to regularly update firefox in case of a nightly channel installation.
In my case, I install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-nightly/ within pacaur and there is a delay between a new AUR release and the nightly channel. So I guess I could update firefox manually, but I try a lot of things and nothing is conclusive:
1. tried to chown and chmod /opt/firefox-nightly to let firefox/about updates itself: breaks the folder's content, needs to reinstall firefox-nightly
2. tried to sudo firefox-nightly to let root updates firefox: breaks the folder's content, needs to reinstall firefox-nightly
Do you have some good tips we could add to the wiki? (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox)
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#2 2017-05-23 07:06:00
- jasonwryan
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Re: Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
Moving to AUR Issues...
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#3 2017-05-23 08:19:47
- enguerran
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Re: Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
Do you believe AUR can follow the nighlty channel rythm?
I would believe that another solution could be a better idea, but I really don't know.
That is why I asked here.
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#4 2017-05-23 09:14:38
- Steef435
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Re: Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
Looking at the PKGBUILD, the source URL does not contain the pkgver, nor does any other part of the build process require knowing it.
So you can safely just rebuild the package with new source files whenever you feel like updating. The pkgver also seems to just be the date so if you want to be tidy you could even create a script that updates the pkgver and runs makepkg -sic and you're done. I'd rather not automatically install packages but I suppose you could create a cron job or systemd timer that does the building as a non-root user and installs as root every day.
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#5 2017-10-12 08:26:56
- heftig
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Re: Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
Just install the Mozilla releases into your homedir. That's really the intended setup.
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#6 2017-11-04 22:24:49
- fuyuki
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Re: Daily updates for Firefox Nightly
Yeah, I just have it downloaded from the site and set in my documents folder--set up a launch icon for my quicklaunch and apps menu myself. It prompts me to update once or twice a day, and once I click ok it does it itself just fine.
Installing it from AUR really just makes things more complicated in this case.
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