403241 – Firefox 10 updates: distribute patches instead of full source

Bug 403241 - Firefox 10 updates: distribute patches instead of full source

Summary: Firefox 10 updates: distribute patches instead of full source

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2012-02-12 08:00 UTC by Franz Trischberger
Modified:	2012-02-12 14:12 UTC (History)
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Description Franz Trischberger 2012-02-12 08:00:23 UTC

Firefox 10 is a long term support-version (like 3.6 was). This will only pull in security fixes. As firefox source tarball grew quite heavily (>70MB), it takes some time to download. Here it needs ~30 minutes. So could it be possible to just distribute a patch for each update? Even if Mozilla does not offer a patch download on their own (like done for the linux-kernel), it should be quite easy to create one.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2012-02-12 14:12:11 UTC

Mozilla team does not have that kind of man power.