Bug 670336

Summary:	=www-client/firefox-bin-63.0.1-r1 installs both /opt/firefox/firefox and /opt/firefox/firefox-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vyacheslav <vklimentyev>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mozilla, proxy-maint, tripolar
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Vyacheslav 2018-11-04 23:01:09 UTC

I see in /opt/firefox two executable files: firefox and firefox-bin with the same sha256 hash.
Why is it? In /usr/bin/firefox-bin, we run /opt/firefox/firefox.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-11-05 10:15:40 UTC

I don't know why Mozilla's build system creates "firefox" and "firefox-bin" all the time. When you search Mozilla's bugzilla you will find bugs like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552864 or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658850.

In general I would say we should backport https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=29945375567a11ba088d76b72d52bcdb54f1486a for firefox-bin. In this case also need to deal with *.sig file.

But when you view firefox-60.0.2 release for example (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/60.0.2/linux-x86_64/en-US/) you will notice that "firefox" and "firefox-bin" binary are different. Not sure if this was a bug...

Comment 2 Vyacheslav 2018-11-05 10:48:03 UTC

I didn't know about file size for different versions. So, I think this is not a bug.

Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-10-04 18:10:28 UTC

We still create both files to be compatible with upstream/bin package but we do a symlink for the second file.