From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87k18vzwl2.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49949) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iNC9q-0000V4-6P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:38:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNC9n-0007cB-Co for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:38:17 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:53734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNC9n-0007Uf-9l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:38:15 -0400 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello fellow Guix, I was finally able to successfully build a working IceCat-68.2 package. The 'wip-icecat-68' branch on Savannah contains this preliminary work. A few caveats: * IceCat 68 has not yet been released upstream. This is very much a work-in-progress, and does not currently meet the privacy-respecting standards of the IceCat project. There are still several issues to be resolved. In particular, it might be that some information is being sent to Google or Mozilla without your knowledge. * Many earlier attempts to build it have failed due to non-deterministic failures in the build system, possibly due to a bug in the Cargo tool. I'm not sure how much luck was involved in my successful build. Your mileage may vary. I'd be curious to hear whether others are able to build it successfully, and whether it works for them. I'd be grateful if others would try building it and report back on their experiences. Thanks, Mark PS: Many thanks to Efraim Flashner for contributing the package definition for 'rust-cbindgen', and to Amin Bandali for producing the first preliminary working version of IceCat 68.