[gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

[gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

[Holly Bostick]

Hi,
As you may have heard, I've upgraded Firefox twice in the last two days
(could have been three times, but I skipped one update).

I'm compiling it, not using the bins.

Well, somewhere between 1.0.5 (where I started) and 1.0.6-r2 (where I
ended up) the folder in /usr/lib changed from

MozillaFirefox

to

mozilla-firefox

Same thing happened with Thunderbird (MozillaThunderbird to
mozilla-thunderbird).

Now, everything works (that's not the problem), and I know that
mozilla-firefox is the folder being used (because I backed up my
searchplugins folder before upgrading, and moved it back to
mozilla-firefox before opening the upgraded firefox, and all my search
engine plugins are now being shown).

But am I supposed to have both folders? Shouldn't one of them (the old
one) have been deleted when the previous versions of Firefox (and
Thunderbird) were removed? Or are they still used for some reason (and
if so, then why do I have to have a new folder)?

Seems to me that something's a bit wonky somewhere, but thought I'd
check here to see if

1) anybody else is seeing this

2) anybody knows a reason this configuration makes sense/is valid

before posting a bug.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

[Richard Fish]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>But am I supposed to have both folders? Shouldn't one of them (the old
>one) have been deleted when the previous versions of Firefox (and
>Thunderbird) were removed? Or are they still used for some reason (and
>if so, then why do I have to have a new folder)?
>
>Seems to me that something's a bit wonky somewhere, but thought I'd
>check here to see if
>
>1) anybody else is seeing this
>
>2) anybody knows a reason this configuration makes sense/is valid
>
>before posting a bug.
>
>  
>

I saw the same thing.  I think the old folders would have been deleted 
by portage, except that some plugins (like flash and realplayer) 
installed symlinks into those directories, which prevented portage from 
removing them just because firefox/thunderbird was updated.

I just rm -rf'd the directories...but a better plan would have been to:

equery belongs `find /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox -type f`

and the same thing for Thunderbird.  After remerging all resulting 
packages, there should be basically nothing left in either of the old 
directories.

-Richard



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Re: [gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

[neil]

Holly Bostick wrote:

> MozillaFirefox
> 
> to
> 
> mozilla-firefox
> 
> Same thing happened with Thunderbird (MozillaThunderbird to
> mozilla-thunderbird).

Yep. Same thing here. It's in the Changelog.

> But am I supposed to have both folders? Shouldn't one of them (the old
> one) have been deleted when the previous versions of Firefox (and
> Thunderbird) were removed? Or are they still used for some reason (and
> if so, then why do I have to have a new folder)?

Portage does not seem to be very good at cleaning up after itself after 
such changes. Files and directories from unmerged packages are 
frequently left on the disk. I do a manual clean-up from time to time.

> 
> Seems to me that something's a bit wonky somewhere, but thought I'd
> check here to see if
> 
> 1) anybody else is seeing this

Yes.

> 2) anybody knows a reason this configuration makes sense/is valid
> 
> before posting a bug.

Well, the change is documented as I stated above.


Be lucky,


Neil


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Re: [gentoo-user] Double Firefox folders in /usr/lib?

[Laurence D.]

 > Well, somewhere between 1.0.5 (where I started) and 1.0.6-r2 (where I
 > ended up) the folder in /usr/lib changed from
 >
 > MozillaFirefox
 >
 > to
 >
 > mozilla-firefox

I noticed this also. The old directory is pretty much empty except for a 
couple directories.

Two specific things that I've noticed:

1) Firefox/Thunderbird inquire about being default clients again (I'm 
using gnome)
2) None of the plugins get recognized. I guess I will probably end up 
copying the plugins over from the old directory into the new directory.

-Viza
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