Chromium lates from Arch repos

Vegita · 2011-04-29 21:49:46

Hi!

Is there a real reason, why Chromium stable is always late from the Archlinux repositories, even on new major versions? Firefox 4 was in the repos immediately. And Chrome/Chromium now is a much better working browser for example on KDE (Firefox until 3.6 couldn't even follow my system MIME types), and it supports GPU accelerated HTML5 video.

I know there is a possibility in aur with yaourt, but Chromium compiles for ages, Chrome would be okay, but on slower CPU-s, even the xz pkg compression can be a long time as it's a huge package (and I need the older lipjpeg and libpng from aur for it even).

Would it be possible to handle Chromium as tons of Archlinux users' default browser? (Security updates, but at least major version upgrades in extra/community). We would be very pleased!

Thanks in advance,
Vegita

Pierre · 2011-04-29 21:55:16

The reason is that chromium is orphaned atm; means there is no developer interested in maintaining it. Maybe if a TU wants to adopt it it could be moved to [community].

tomk · 2011-04-29 22:50:16

Vegita wrote:

I know there is a possibility in aur with yaourt, but Chromium compiles for ages

This argument always puzzles me. Yes, chromium does compile for ages, but you don't have to sit there and watch it, do you? I build chromium-dev approximately once a week, it takes about an hour, and during that time, I do other things - revolutionary, right?

And if you can't think of anything else to do, start it just before you go to sleep, and wake up to the smell of freshly-built chromium.

bluej774 · 2011-04-30 08:09:16

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litemotiv · 2011-04-30 08:57:04

Vegita wrote:

I know there is a possibility in aur with yaourt, but Chromium compiles for ages, Chrome would be okay, but on slower CPU-s, even the xz pkg compression can be a long time as it's a huge package (and I need the older lipjpeg and libpng from aur for it even).

chromium-browser-bin is about 2 versions ahead of the current release version but is generally very stable. It has all the new features (plus more) and takes about 3 minutes to download and package on my 1.86ghz laptop. You do need libjpeg and libpng, but that's a very small one time investment.

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 10:24:22

I don't want chromium 13, svn or whatever....I want the stable version as told by upstream
So I've tried to get the PKGBUILD from chromium (yaourt -G chromium)
- change pkgver to 11.0.696.57
- makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD to recreate md5sums
- 139 Mb of source code to download
- You also have to remove the webkit patch wich is not needed anymore
Then makepkg -s :

- wait 10~15 min just to replace every python with python2 in the source code...
- but the compilation fails early with the following message :

WARNING - duplicate keys exist in shortcut group IDD_CHROME_FRAME_FIND_DIALOG
      sk duplicates: &N
      fr duplicates: &R
      ro duplicates: &G
      nl duplicates: &O
      no duplicates: &N
   pt-PT duplicates: &P
      sw duplicates: &F
      ca duplicates: &A
      de duplicates: &N
      tr duplicates: &A
      sv duplicates: &S
      da duplicates: &O
      lv duplicates: &R, &U
      pl duplicates: &W
      cs duplicates: &N
      fi duplicates: &K
  es-419 duplicates: &A
      id duplicates: &T
      es duplicates: &B

Any idea on how to fix this ?

edit : seems to be related to gcc4.6 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … ?id=80071), it is compiling fine right now...

Last edited by LeCrayonVert (2011-04-30 12:28:10)

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 11:58:37

Ok another compilation error now :

Unknown parameter math for tags/attrs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 174, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 156, in main
    assert returnCode == 0
AssertionError
Unknown parameter a for tags/attrs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 174, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 156, in main
    assert returnCode == 0
AssertionError
make: *** [out/Release/obj/gen/webkit/SVGNames.cpp] Error 1
make: *** Attente des tâches non terminées....
make: *** [out/Release/obj/gen/webkit/MathMLNames.cpp] Error 1
Unknown parameter a interfaceName for tags/attrs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 174, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 156, in main
    assert returnCode == 0
AssertionError
make: *** [out/Release/obj/gen/webkit/HTMLNames.cpp] Error 1
Unknown parameter actuate for tags/attrs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 174, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 156, in main
    assert returnCode == 0
AssertionError
make: *** [out/Release/obj/gen/webkit/XLinkNames.cpp] Error 1
Unknown parameter xmlns for tags/attrs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 174, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "scripts/action_makenames.py", line 156, in main
    assert returnCode == 0
AssertionError
make: *** [out/Release/obj/gen/webkit/XMLNSNames.cpp] Error 1

wonder · 2011-04-30 12:05:08

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=46411
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=70746

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 14:24:56

Since I don't know which patch to apply, I've tried that :

patch -Np1 -i ../../chromium-gcc46-summ.patch
patch -Np0 -i ../../chromium-gcc46-backport.patch
patch -Np0 -i ../../chromium-gcc46-p1.patch
patch -Np0 -i ../../chromium-gcc46-p2.patch
patch -Np0 -i ../../chromium-gcc46-p3.patch

but there are still some patch conflicts...

Last edited by LeCrayonVert (2011-04-30 14:28:34)

wonder · 2011-04-30 14:32:20

i think you only need chromium-gcc46-summ.patch and chromium-gcc46-p3.patch

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 14:36:33

I'll try that Thx

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 14:48:36

Unfortunately, I still have the same issue as in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 56#p925856

wonder · 2011-04-30 14:49:22

@LeCrayonVert that is in the first link i pasted

LeCrayonVert · 2011-04-30 16:36:06

Yep sorry... I did not notice..
So everything works fine now (compilation time : ~70 min on my laptop (core 2 duo P7450) )
Here is the source package > http://dl.free.fr/u3IldSbFy

Pierre · 2011-04-30 18:07:30

Using these patches I have uploaded chromium to extra. A regular maintainer would still be ideal though.

LeCrayonVert · 2011-05-07 09:19:05

Pierre > thx. There has been a new minor revision (from 11.0.696.57 to 11.0.696.65). Could you please upgrade the package ? (there shouldn't be any issue). Let me know if you want me to send the source package.

Allan · 2011-05-07 09:35:45

Flag the package out of date on the web interface (the forum is not the place to report out of date packages). It has a new developer taking care of it now.

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Chromium lates from Arch repos

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