[bug#28004] Chromium

[ng0 <ng0@n0.is>]

Marius Bakke transcribed 4.8K bytes:
> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi Marius,
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:06:57 +0100
> > Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ng0 <ng0@n0.is> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Marius Bakke transcribed 2.1K bytes:  
> >> >> Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> writes:
> >> >>   
> >> >> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 20:01:34 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:  
> >> >> >> If there are no objections, expect to see this in 'master' in
> >> >> >> 1-2 weeks.  
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I want to express gratitude for your hard work on this---given
> >> >> > that IceCat does not contain many of the FF devtool updates,
> >> >> > Chromium is very desirable for web development.  It's also
> >> >> > needed for certain Node.js tools, like node-inspector.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > So, thank you!  
> >> >> 
> >> >> Thank *you* for the kind words! :-)
> >> >> 
> >> >> Here is the latest iteration of this patch.  New in this version:
> >> >> 
> >> >> * Chromium 64 (duh).
> >> >> * The 'delete-bundled-software' phase has been moved to a snippet,
> >> >>   shaving ~100MiB (~22%) off the compressed tarball size (and
> >> >>   drastically reduces (de)compression time).
> >> >> * The New Tab page does not show any thumbnails for new profiles.  
> >> >
> >> > I think you forgot to attach the patches :)  
> >> 
> >> Derp.  I realized that and just used `git send-email`[0], but have
> >> attached it here for convenience since the debbugs web UI doesn't
> >> allow easy download of a raw message.
> >> 
> >> [0] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=131;bug=28004#131
> >> 
> >
> >
> > This looks like a lot of work. Thank you!
> >
> > I quickly tried to apply and build the patch and have two first remarks:
> >
> > The file says:
> >
> > ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017, 2018 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> >
> > I haven't followed history, have you worked on this since 2016?
> 
> Yeah, I started this shortly after going full-GuixSD in October 2016.
> But I didn't submit it until now because I didn't think it met Guix's
> standards (and still think it's questionable due to privacy concerns).
> 
> > One patch has a hash-mismatch:
> >
> > Starting download of /gnu/store/q8hlws48cjfcmz6i40jrnxn3kp750gy4-chromium-icu.patch
> > From https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git/plain/debian/patches/system/icu.patch?id=debian/64.0.3282.119-2...
> >  icu.patch  2KiB                    1.8MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
> > output path `/gnu/store/q8hlws48cjfcmz6i40jrnxn3kp750gy4-chromium-icu.patch' should have sha256 hash `0kf77d8lyma3w0xpgfv2k0c741zp6ii08gzllfja6d5s59c15ylv', instead has `19r0bpv2hapzq5m0m7rlz1dwn3h2ijgkilb2hmhw56qvwpbw0b59'
> > @ build-failed /gnu/store/cqdllqn8ig5wnjn0yqvnh4vlzsvnpzv6-chromium-icu.patch.drv - 1 output path `/gnu/store/q8hlws48cjfcmz6i40jrnxn3kp750gy4-chromium-icu.patch' should have sha256 hash `0kf77d8lyma3w0xpgfv2k0c741zp6ii08gzllfja6d5s59c15ylv', instead has `19r0bpv2hapzq5m0m7rlz1dwn3h2ijgkilb2hmhw56qvwpbw0b59'
> > cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/vacxbwsprcp52vp6q975450zi091dak2-chromium-64.0.3282.186.tar.xz.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
> > @ build-started /gnu/store/7q53inn1v32b5fain0h0wcrliclf0ff1-libvpx+experimental-1.7.0.drv - x86_64-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/7q//53inn1v32b5fain0h0wcrliclf0ff1-libvpx+experimental-1.7.0.drv.bz2
> > cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/5qv7anaaqk4576pma9mhcsz1nhrx1n01-chromium-64.0.3282.186.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
> > guix build: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/5qv7anaaqk4576pma9mhcsz1nhrx1n01-chromium-64.0.3282.186.drv' failed
> >
> > I looked into the file and it looks reasonable, like a patch-file. It has no download errors.
> >
> > It starts like this:
> >
> > description: backwards compatibility for older versions of icu
> > author: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>
> >
> > --- a/v8/src/runtime/runtime-intl.cc
> > +++ b/v8/src/runtime/runtime-intl.cc
> > @@ -627,7 +627,11 @@ RUNTIME_FUNCTION(Runtime_PluralRulesSele
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Can you check this file again?
> 
> Whoops, indeed.  I had an older patch in my store and apparently forgot
> to update the hash.
> 
> The correct hash for %chromium-system-icu.patch is:
> 
> 19r0bpv2hapzq5m0m7rlz1dwn3h2ijgkilb2hmhw56qvwpbw0b59
> 
> Thanks for letting me know!  I'll send an updated patch later, with some
> other minor improvements.


I think we found it to be good enough to be included in master, or did I miss anything?

Would be nice if I could drop my local patch (and building). The team around Taler seems
to be interested in it as well as far as I can remember our chats in Leipzig.
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