Firefox... automatic updates

[NoOp]

On 10/23/2009 04:34 PM, David Curtis wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:01 -0400
> slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  David, I'm just not sure what you are telling me...? 
> 
> What I'm saying is going from 3.0 to 3.5 is _not_ a trivial update, it
> is a migration, it requires you to make certain decisions due to the
> fact that with add-ons, plug-ins, and other FF customizations
> that may not traverse a 3.0 to 3.5 upgrade, an automatic update would be
> hazardous without human intervention.
> 
> You wouldn't want to do an upgrade and find out FF doesn't work or
> loses some functionality without knowing why would you?
> 
> With that said, if you install 3.5 from the repos, the first time you
> run it, it will try to get as many settings from your 3.0 install as
> possible, you must be in front of your computer to participate in this
> process. IIRC, it should tell you if add-ons installed for 3.0 will not
> work with 3.5 and also if they are not available for 3.5.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

You seemed to have missed the point that 3.5 is in the _universe_
repositories vs the main repositories. Regardless of the changes from
3.0 to 3.5, you _won't_ get an automatic update from a main package to a
universe package unless the universe package is moved to main first.