CentOS - Mar 2007 - Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?

I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with  
the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates  
until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future?

Alfred

On 3/21/07, Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net>
wrote:
> I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with
> the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates
> until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future?
>
Well its up to Red Hat and the 1 Mozilla guy they have. If he says..
"Captain, she can't take no more patches..' then I guess they will
do
a 'technology refresh' like they have done in the past with upgrading
Mozilla->Seamonkey. On the other hand, they may hire a bunch of people
to try and learn from Scotty and keep 1.5 going for 8 years.

> Alfred
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On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:53 -0400, Alfred von Campe
wrote:
> I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with  
> the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates  
> until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future?
> 
> Alfred
CentOS will follow the lead of RedHat, while RedHat will plod along
behind Fedora.
There was some talk Fedora (and Redhat) would officially skip FF 2.0 and
go straight to 3.0
According to most estimates, FF 3.0 will be out by the end of the year,
although some are saying July.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Schedule

Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote:
> I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with  
> the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates  
> until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future?
>
> Alfred
As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no":

[dave at fold ~]# rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.5.0.8-1.el5.centos.1
[dave at fold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.92 (Beta)

This was discussed extensively on the fedora list.  Red Hat will 
continue to provide updates to Firefox 1.5 as per their support 
agreement for RHEL.  RH *may* choose to upgrade RHEL 5 to Firefox 2.0 
but whatever version is the official version will be supported as long 
as the RHEL release is supported.

Cheers,
Dave

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Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
>   
>> > Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote:
>> > 
>>     
>>> > >I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done
upstream, but with
>>> > >the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only
receive updates
>>> > >until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS'
future?
>>> > >
>>> > >Alfred
>>>       
>> > As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no":
>>     
>
> Which beta2? 
>
> Ralph
I'm running CentOS 5 beta 2 on a test box.  You can find the links to 
the current beta ISOs, release notes, etc. on the CentOS main web page 
(the i386 and x86_54 ISOs are under 
http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.92/isos/). 

The estimate was for CentOS to trail RHEL 5 by about two weeks.  This 
implies that we should see a production release of CentOS fairly soon 
but feel free to give the beta a whirl if you want.  I'm currently 
running FC6 and CentOS 4.4 on different boxes for hardware support so 
I'm trying to get a jump on moving to only running CentOS 5 and not 
having to chase the latest Fedora version.

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce