Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

[n952162]

Ah, that is a good point ... assuming there's not an suid-updater
squirreled away somewhere.  I'm pretty sure that I've run firefox (lots)
since last rebuilding it on the machine in question.

Your test is good, but yields new questions:

- machine 1:

    $ pgrep -a firefox
    *2829 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox --name firefox -P default*

    $ pgrep -V
    pgrep from procps-ng 3.3.16

- machine 2 (with automatic update):

    $ pgrep -a firefox
    *6355 firefox*

    $ pgrep -V
    pgrep from procps-ng 3.3.16

In both cases, I start by just invoking "firefox" (no aliases)



On 11/12/20 8:28 AM, Andreas Fink wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100
> n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
>
>> I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox
>> has updated, I need to restart.
>>
>> I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope?
>>
>> And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox emerge to get rid of
>> their "update"?  Or is their binary sitting somewhere different from
>> "our" binary?
>>
>> Oh!  Can I just remove their binary and do a resume-emerge?
>>
>>
> When firefox is updated via emerge while it is still running, this
> update is recognised by the running instance and it will tell you that
> firefox was updated and needs a restart. No automatic update happened
> as you assume, it was all done by the package manager.
> If you insist, you can check the binary that is currently running, and
> you will most certainly find out that it is not writeable by your user
> account, i.e. not by the user that is running firefox:
> pgrep -a firefox
>
> Cheers
> Andreas
>