I get notifications from firefox that an updates are available. Once I wondered if it would be able to update and I pushed the update button, it failed (likely in escalading the auths, as Andreas pointed).
To get rid of long compilation of firefox, I use www-client/firefox-bin. The emerged binary is firefox-bin (rather than firefox as it would be after local compilation). In firefox preferences, I can disable firefox updates (so that it doesn't bother for newer versions available). Fosco Il 12/11/20 08:28, Andreas Fink ha scritto: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100 > n952162 <n952...@web.de> wrote: > >> I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox >> has updated, I need to restart. >> >> I no longer find an option to disable automatic update. Is there no hope? >> >> And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox emerge to get rid of >> their "update"? Or is their binary sitting somewhere different from >> "our" binary? >> >> Oh! Can I just remove their binary and do a resume-emerge? >> >> > When firefox is updated via emerge while it is still running, this > update is recognised by the running instance and it will tell you that > firefox was updated and needs a restart. No automatic update happened > as you assume, it was all done by the package manager. > If you insist, you can check the binary that is currently running, and > you will most certainly find out that it is not writeable by your user > account, i.e. not by the user that is running firefox: > pgrep -a firefox > > Cheers > Andreas >
