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

[Andreas Fink]

Hmm, interesting that it shows not the full path on one machine. This
should always show you the full path:
for p in `pgrep firefox` ; do ls -lh /proc/${p}/exe ; done

You could also check with the following command what will be executed:
which firefox
Use `which -a firefox` to see all possible binaries that could be found
in $PATH.
The default is that /usr/bin/firefox is a bash script that would start
the real firefox binary at some point.

To list all packages that are installed matching firefox you could use
qlist -Iv firefox
qlist is part of the app-portage/portage-utils package.

Maybe that will help to see what is actually running on your system and
where it is installed.



On Thu, 12 Nov 2020
09:19:51 +0100 n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:

> 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
> >