[Tfug] Firefox 2.0.012]

[Jeffry Johnston]

I had no real idea what he was talking about.. seemed like he was
complaining about having to manually download something... maybe I
missed the beginning of the thread?

Jeff

On Feb 8, 2008 6:24 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:25:04AM -0700, Jeffry Johnston wrote:
> >Sounds to me like you need a package manager.
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >On Feb 7, 2008 9:39 PM, Felix Tilley <fetilley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> I had to down load the whole damn thing in Linux.  10 Megs.  The update
> >> gave me an error about AUS.  I know nothing about AUS. so I downloaded
> >> the whole damned file.
> >> It seems to work.
> >>
> >> Just released.  No revision for Thunderbird.
> >>
> >> www.mozilla.com
> >>
> >> Felix in Tucson
>
> A package manager wouldn't really help here, would it?
>
> Felix' problem is that the Firefox binary patch updater didn't work.  To the
> best of my knowledge, no Linux distro makes use of binary patches to cover
> revision-to-revision changes.  More complex to maintain, I'm sure, but it
> would certainly cut down on the amount of data transferred.
>
>
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