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Draft for Packaging Mozilla Extensions
This is a draft for packaging extensions for Mozilla applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and others.
Naming
Packages of Mozilla extensions should take into account the upstream name of the extension. All Mozilla extensions MUST follow the scheme of mozilla-<extension>, where <extension> is the name of the extension. Examples include mozilla-adblockplus, mozilla-noscript.
Rationale:
Installation Directories
Packages for Mozilla extensions should place unpacked files in %{_datadir}/mozilla/extensions/common/<extension>/ directory, where <extension> is the name of the package without the mozilla- prefix. Packages that contain architecture specific files should instead use %{_libdir}/mozilla/extensions/<extension>/ directory.
To register an extension for a Mozilla application, the package should drop into the application's extension directory symlinks which point to the actual files in the %{_datadir}/mozilla/extensions/common/<extension>/ directory.
For an example, to register the extension for Mozilla and Thunderbird, the package should:
# Firefox
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_firefox_extdir}
ln -s %{_moz_ext_commondir}/{extension_name} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_firefox_extdir}/{extension_id}
# Thunderbird
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_thunderbird_extdir}
ln -s %{_moz_ext_commondir}/{extension_name} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_thunderbird_extdir}/{extension_id}
Rationale:
Directory Ownership
Mozilla extension packages should not Require a specific Mozilla application. As per Packaging/Guidelines, to avoid unowned directories Mozilla extension packages should own all the directories under %{_moz_extdir}.
Sample %files section:
Rationale:
Macros
| Macro | Usage |
|---|---|
| _moz_ext_commondir | Directory where extension packages should install actual files. |
| _chatzilla_extdir | Chatzilla extension directory for dropping symlinks in |
| _firefox_extdir | Firefox extension directory for dropping symlinks in |
| _seamonkey_extdir | Seamonkey extension directory for dropping symlinks in |
| _spicebird_extdir | Spicebird extension directory for dropping symlinks in |
| _sunbird_extdir | Sunbird extension directory for dropping symlinks in |
| _thunderbird_extdir | Thunderbird extension directory for dropping symlinks in |