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crotte

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Hello,

Here is the problem:
firefox 3 --> xulrunner --> gcc-libs --> glibc --> kernel-headers --> kernel2.6

I have frozen the kernel version to 2.6.24 to avoid problems. But if I want FF3, I need to update to kernel 2.6.25 to satisfy all dependencies... How to bypass that?

Here are the packages frozen:

IgnorePkg   = kernel26
IgnorePkg   = kernel-headers
IgnorePkg   = glibc
IgnorePkg   = binutils
IgnorePkg   = findutils
IgnorePkg   = gcc
IgnorePkg   = gcc-libs

Thanks a lot

Last edited by crotte (2008-06-24 15:43:26)

Cerebral

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

you could potentially rebuild xulrunner against your older version of gcc-libs maybe?

shining_grin

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Or maybe install the new kernel without removing the old one, then update the system but keep booting with the old kernel until the new one isn't stable enough for you.
I think it can be a workaround.

Cerebral

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Or maybe install the new kernel without removing the old one

What?  I'm not sure I understand what you mean - you can't dual-install two packages of the same name at the same time

Mr Green

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Do you really need 2.6.25 to run firefox3 ? did you try ff3 package in AUR?

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phrakture

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

You can try skipping dep resolution (see the pacman man page) and cross your fingers.

Alternatively, you can always try the binary package from Mozilla

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crotte

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Well, finally I crossed the fingers and installed the new kernel. At the moment, everything works fine. I tried binary package from mozilla, but I had problems (I don't remember exactly the error message). I didn't try the AUR package, because the description was telling that it was just the same binary package than the official mozilla package. I also tried to 'rebuild xulrunner against your older version of gcc-libs', but I didn't succeed (I'm not sure I found the right way to do it).

The only thing I miss on Arch (in comparison to other distributions, i.e. debian) is installing multiple kernels and select the one I want with Grub. I guess it's possible, but not that easy.

By the way, thank you for your help ;-)
Have a nice day

shining_grin

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Re: Firefox 3 requires... kerne 2.6.25

Or maybe install the new kernel without removing the old one

What?  I'm not sure I understand what you mean - you can't dual-install two packages of the same name at the same time

Well, I think that if you rename your boot image, mkinitcpio image, the modules folder, then upgrade grub.conf accordingly, when upgrading you will have your old kernel again, together with the new one.
I think I've read this workaround here in some other thread of the section Kernel, but I don't remember where

Anyways you can still recompile the kernel editing the cfgname of the PKGBUILD in order to obtain a different custom version.
After that, the new kernel should be installed in parallel.