Hi, we just encountered an issue concerning the allowed values of the em:id field in firefox extensions' install.rdf file. Allowed values are (since FF 1.5) either UUIDs or an e-mail style unique identifier (my_piece_of_software@somecompany.foo). A simple fix is attached (that hopefully does not break other extensions). The right way to do would probably be to use some real XML stuff but that might be overkill. The sed approach will just not work if e.g. the order of the elements is changed - let's hope nobody does that. --- /usr/portage/eclass/mozextension.eclass 2007-12-20 17:06:06.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/local/portage/eclass/mozextension.eclass 2008-03-09 21:54:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ x="${1}" cd ${x} # determine id for extension - emid=$(sed -n -e '/<\?em:id>\?/!d; s/.*\([\"{].*[}\"]\).*/\1/; s/\"//g; p; q' ${x}/install.rdf) || die "failed to determine extension id" + emid=$(sed -n 's/^.*<em\:id>\(.*\)<\/em\:id>.*$/\1/p' ${x}/install.rdf | head -n 1) + + test -z "$emid" && die "failed to determine extension id" insinto "${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}"/extensions/${emid} doins -r "${x}"/* || die "failed to copy extension" }
Please don't paste any patches inline; it kills formatting and is unreadable...
*** Bug 202567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 201787 [details, diff] Patch for better id handling Attached is a patch to handle different em:ids formats. This doesn't address the issue presented in bug #202567, but solves the issue for "email ids" as specified by Mozilla: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Install_Manifests#id Also, I moved the id retrieval to its own function because I ran into this problem when I was making an ebuild for an extension that deemed necessary to get this id to be used in the install process outside the xpi_install function. I don't know much about ebuidls / bash / sed, so please review and comment.
If this is still an issue feel free to ping a mozilla dev on #gentoo-moz and we will be happy to help you.
