237753 - packages-unix misses files?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114

at least the following files are not in packages-unix but in mozilla.org's
distribution:

components/htmlparser.xpt
components/jsconsole.xpt
components/lwbrk.xpt
components/nsInterfaceInfoToIDL.js
components/nsResetPref.js
components/nsUpdateNotifier.js
components/plugin.xpt
components/prefetch.xpt
components/ucnative.xpt
res/arrowd.gif
res/viewer.properties

and profile-sharing stuff:
components/profilesharingsetup.xpt
ipc/modules/liblockmodule.so
ipc/modules/libtransmgr.so
mozipcd
components/ipcd.xpt
components/libipcdc.so

the problem is, that some mozilla distributions create their file-lists out
of this packages file and the files are missing then.
It's almost impossible to know which files are really needed :-(
I see two possibilities:
1. improve the packaging mechanism 
2. make install does reliable install only needed files


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

packages-unix seems to be a little outdated and not fixable because of different
compile settings easily. So closing now.