Building Mozilla 1.0.1 RPMs

Since neither Mozilla, Red Hat, nor Ximian seems in a hurry to release RPMs of Mozilla 1.0.1, and since I use the 1.0-based Galeon and would like to take advantage of the fixes, I thought I'd try building a set. So far, it seems to have worked.

Because of the size I'm not going to post the whole thing, just the modified .spec file I created and links to the originals. I built this on Red Hat Linux 7.3, but I expect it should work on other RPM-based systems.

Update 9/17/02 - A new version of Galeon is out with support for Mozilla 1.1, which has official RPMs, so this is probably no longer useful exactly as it is - however, the technique should work for upgrading other packages, assuming the list of installed files doesn't change.

Directions

Grab the Mozilla 1.0.1 source tarball and the Mozilla 1.0 SRPM from mozilla.org or from a mirror.
Grab my .spec file: mozilla-1.0.1.spec. The main changes I made were:
- Changed the version number
- Changed the source tarball from .gz to .bz2
- Removed patches 15 and 16, which appear to be incorporated into 1.0.1.
Install the Mozilla 1.0 SRPM so you can get the various patches, icons, etc.
```
rpm -i mozilla-1.0.0-9.src.rpm
```
Copy/move the Mozilla 1.0.1 source tarball to the RPM sources directory.
```
cp mozilla-source-1.0.1.tar.bz2 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
```

Build the .spec file

rpm -ba mozilla-1.0.1.spec
or rpm -ba --target i686 mozilla-1.0.1.spec
or rpm -ba --target athlon mozilla-1.0.1.spec
(or something similar)

Install the new RPMS.

rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/(architecture)/mozilla*

Copy/move any plugins from the Mozilla 1.0 directory to the Mozilla 1.0.1 directory.
```
mv /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0/plugins/* /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/plugins
```
If you use Galeon, edit the starting script (probably /usr/bin/galeon) and copy the two lines about /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0, changing them to 1.0.1 instead. So far the Ximian release of Galeon 1.2.5 seems to work, though I haven't done any serious testing yet. You should have something like:
```
elif [ -f /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/chrome/comm.jar ]; then
	MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1
elif [ -f /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0/chrome/comm.jar ]; then
	MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0
...
```

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