[bug#28004] Chromium 66 + status update

[Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>]

Marius Bakke transcribed 69K bytes:
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello!  I'd like to speak up in favor of getting Chromium merged into
> > Guix master.  As a web developer, sometimes I have to test things
> > against multiple browsers.  Having Chromium in GuixSD would help me out
> > a lot.
> >
> > It looks like a mountain of hard work has been put into this.  Could we
> > get it merged rather than have that work languish?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I use this browser a lot, so it's hardly languishing.
> 
> There was a recent discussion[0] about the Pale Moon browser, where it
> was pointed out that the FSDG[1] requires that any third-party
> repositories must be committed to only free software.
> 
> [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-03/msg00319.html
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html#license-rules
> 
> Unfortunately there are UI links to the Chrome "Web Store" still.  It's
> not possible to install from it without setting the
> CHROMIUM_ENABLE_WEB_STORE variable, but I'm not sure if that is
> sufficient.  It's unfortunate if an unsuspecting user stumbles into the
> Web Store and tries to install something (free or not) and only then
> finds out that it does not work.
> 
> The other remaining issue is that some data is sent to Google whenever
> you start the browser for the first time.  I don't think that's a
> blocker, but it's certainly something we should aim to fix.
> 
> Attached are updates for 66.  The first is an interdiff from the
> previous 65 patch; the other is the full "squashed" patch for
> convenience.
> 
> New in this version:
> 
> * The snippet will now error if a preserved directory is not present.
> * Chromium again requires a git revision of libvpx.
> * The "safe browsing" feature requires the nonfree "unrar" program(!!),
>   as such it has been compiled out.  Luckily "Inox" already had a patch
>   to make the thing actually build with that flag disabled.
> * Cosmetic rearrangement of patches to follow Debian and Inox patch order.
> 

> From a6ce5ebc121f129c3097f1f105b6a4de925b43e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 03:54:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Chromium 66 update.
 > 

Good progress :)

However, I'm a friend of bundling patches. Patches you have in a known location
don't run away, like "addmissingblinktools":

Starting download of /gnu/store/1djisy58jqjajbfcrd32vf7hrg9qvzwa-add-missing-blink-tools.patch
From https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/bionic-stable/download/head:/addmissingblinktools-20180416203514-02f50sz15c2mn6ei-1/add-missing-blink-tools.patch...
download failed "https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/bionic-stable/download/head:/addmissingblinktools-20180416203514-02f50sz15c2mn6ei-1/add-missing-blink-tools.patch" 404 "Not Found"

Starting download of /gnu/store/1djisy58jqjajbfcrd32vf7hrg9qvzwa-add-missing-blink-tools.patch
From http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/file/add-missing-blink-tools.patch/sha256/1im2l1g6g9mangpfphbkg6zxyglbfwbkm5jxv122yxqgm6vxzz6s...
download failed "http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/file/add-missing-blink-tools.patch/sha256/1im2l1g6g9mangpfphbkg6zxyglbfwbkm5jxv122yxqgm6vxzz6s" 404 "Not Found"

Starting download of /gnu/store/1djisy58jqjajbfcrd32vf7hrg9qvzwa-add-missing-blink-tools.patch
From http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/1im2l1g6g9mangpfphbkg6zxyglbfwbkm5jxv122yxqgm6vxzz6s...
download failed "http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/1im2l1g6g9mangpfphbkg6zxyglbfwbkm5jxv122yxqgm6vxzz6s" 404 "Not Found"
failed to download "/gnu/store/1djisy58jqjajbfcrd32vf7hrg9qvzwa-add-missing-blink-tools.patch" from "https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/bionic-stable/download/head:/addmissingblinktools-20180416203514-02f50sz15c2mn6ei-1/add-missing-blink-tools.patch"
builder for `/gnu/store/5hbv5vgnla974qiw6kakc28a4k35h96n-add-missing-blink-tools.patch.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/1djisy58jqjajbfcrd32vf7hrg9qvzwa-add-missing-blink-tools.patch'
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/2z8i7b4l4l0p5b3pj4swdl2pvbdj5q24-chromium-66.0.3359.117.tar.xz.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/4fxkp0aa1vr2b9fbl9kw8l8ijw0zrd25-chromium-66.0.3359.117.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/4fxkp0aa1vr2b9fbl9kw8l8ijw0zrd25-chromium-66.0.3359.117.drv' failed