From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Tor Browser Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:35:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87fuqjmj7z.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <20160623104107.GA2505@shadowwalker> <20160623132347.GA9193@shadowwalker> <87a8ia7pq4.fsf@gnu.org> <20160624134357.GA30727@shadowwalker> <87por637vi.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20160624174913.GA19633@shadowwalker> <87r3bkmfja.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn2kxirt.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87mvm355r3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVfI2-0006qv-6G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:35:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVfI0-0001k6-58 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:35:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mvm355r3.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès writes: > ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > >>> I suppose TB contains a script that does all that, right? Would it work >>> to simply run it? If it invokes wget/curl, then this needs to be >>> replaced, but the rest should be fine. >> >> It's not that easy I'm afraid. >> Currently they use a gitian build, as described in this README[0], >> which the person maintaining the torbrowser ebuild for Gentoo out >> of portage replicates and follows in parts. >> It can't be followed completely, as `builders/tor-browser-bundle' >> requires a checkout of gitian of the torproject.org >> >> So we have to look at what they do and recreate this build >> procedure, there's no individual Makefile, the releases are >> created in VMs. >> >> Dependencies are kept up to date here[1]. >> >> This[2] is the script connecting/using gitian for gnu-linux releases. >> >> The Makefile just runs the corresponding scripts. > > Gitian is about building binaries. There must be some script somewhere > to apply the relevant patches to the source first, before one builds it, > no? > >>> It’s unfortunate that there’s no ready-to-build TB tarball, that would >>> simplify things for us. >> >> Yes.. But I think icecat suffers from the same problem, only that >> icecat tarballs/binaries are built using a bash script applying >> all that's needed to the firefox sources again. > > IceCat publishes source tarballs that, AIUI, are produced essentially by > running a script that patches Firefox’s code base (same approach for > Linux-libre.) > > Thanks, > Ludo’. There are the .mar files, which I suppose are the built source of torbrowser, but I can't tell for sure since i can't find an upstream for mar-tools. I guess it is Mozilla, but where is it available? https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/6.0.3/ -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 Current Keys: https://we.make.ritual.n0.is/ng0.txt For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org