Nils Gillmann writes: > Marius Bakke transcribed 69K bytes: >> Christopher Lemmer Webber 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 >> 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 Whoops. I'm not used to constructing stable Bazaar URLs. However this patch is not needed for the latest tarball. Here's a diff to the 66 patch updating to the latest Chromium. I also removed some inputs and third party directories that were not needed.