[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

[»Q«]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:41:35 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 05:20:21 »Q« wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:46:40 +0300
> >
> > Emre Eryilmaz <emre.eryilmaz@××××××.com> wrote:
> > > 2015-07-30 21:23 GMT+03:00 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>:
> > > > Over the course of the last 24 hours, Firefox 38.1.0 became
> > > > stable in portage, so I merged it in.
> > > >
> > > > What a mistake!
> > >
> > > It's a firefox profile problems. No data loss. Because aurora goes
> > > firefox developer edition and firefox developer edition has a new
> > > firefox profile. Its solutions:
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555416#c5
> >
> > I'm confused by all this.  Why should the bindist USE flag control
> > whether Firefox ESR or Firefox aurora/developer gets built?  Will
> > Firefox ESR no longer compile with the option
> >  --disable-official-branding ?
>
> There is no "--disable-official-branding" here:
>
>      Installed versions:  38.1.0^d(09:32:07 07/31/15)(dbus
> gmp-autoupdate jemalloc3 jit minimal pulseaudio startup-notification
> -bindist -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -egl -gstreamer
> -gstreamer-0 -hardened -neon -pgo -selinux -system-cairo -system-icu
> -system-jpeg -system-libvpx -system-sqlite -test -wifi LINGUAS="en_GB
> -af -ar -as -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -bn_IN -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de
> -el -en_ZA -eo -es_AR -es_CL -es_ES -es_MX -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -fy_NL
> -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy_AM -id -is -it -ja -kk
> -km -kn -ko -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -or -pa_IN -pl
> -pt_BR - pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta -te
> -th -tr -uk -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW")

It's not a USE flag -- it's a config option for building Firefox.  You
can see yours by entering "about:buildconfig" in Firefox's address bar.

> >  Or does --disable-official-branding now
> > produce an ESR version that behaves like a developer version WRT
> > profiles?  (If the answer to that last question is "yes", then ISTM
> > this is an upstream bug.)
>
> The USE flag in question is bindist.  Without it you get FF ESR and
> all works as before.  With it set you get the new developer profile
> and you have to deselect it *each time* if you want your old profile
> back.

On the face of things, the bindist flag shouldn't control that;  with
bindist set, you should also get ESR, only unbranded.  And ESR
shouldn't be creating new profiles.  Upstream's developer (formerly
aurora) channel, which does use those profiles, is a separate channel
from ESR.  The developer channel is a pre-beta channel, currenty
offering Firefox 41.0a2, <https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/>.