[bug#28004] Chromium 66 + status update

[Nils Gillmann]

Nils Gillmann transcribed 4.4K bytes:
> Marius Bakke transcribed 69K bytes:
> > Christopher Lemmer Webber <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
> > 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
> 
> 
> 

Is this the patch you included?

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/artful-beta/view/head:/debian/patches/add-missing-blink-tools.patch

guix hash is 1im2l1g6g9mangpfphbkg6zxyglbfwbkm5jxv122yxqgm6vxzz6s and matches 
the one the package definition expected.