Building chromium, how to pack it into rpm?

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by dbuck

> @dbuck, I'm assuming that you just modified the src/DEPS file?

Correct. (which you already found.) I cheated and made sure to put in
revision 823.

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Hi
Yes, that's what I did as well as modifying the .gclient file to get
native_src. Thanks for the heads-up on that one

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[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by dbuck

> @dbuck, I'm assuming that you just modified the src/DEPS file?

Correct. (which you already found.) I cheated and made sure to put in
revision 823.

D

Hi
I see you got a mention in this weeks newsletter as well
Congratulations

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[dbuck]

Hi
I see you got a mention in this weeks newsletter as well
Congratulations

Wow! You're right! I think I need to read the news more often...

Well... I can only say thanks to you for helping me be famous.

/removefamegoingtomyheadihope

Back to chromium:

My SPEC file is continuing on its course to being an abomination.

I was asked to help out with chromium package at openSUSE:Factory:Contrib project. OBS user prusnak asked me. He based the package on a redhat one found somewhere. It had many patches to make chromium use more of the system shared libraries.

I re-did several of the patches, removed some, add a new one by OBS user jhaygood, etc.

One thing to note: using the patch alone reduces the chrome binary by 14MB or so. (This was the one by jhaygood.)

That's all for now.

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Edit: it failed! the Contrib project didn't compile. /me is sad. Back to patching.

[dbuck]

Edit to above:

Using the ICU patch reduces the chrome executable by about 14MB or so.

Also, I get this error from a Factory build now:

CXX /usr/src/packages/BUILD/chromium/src/out/Release/obj/printing/image.o
cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
cc1plus: error: command line option "-Wmissing-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
make: *** [/usr/src/packages/BUILD/chromium/src/out/Release/obj/printing/image.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ZIuwo1 (%build)

I didn't get the "-Wmissing-prototypes" error before. I am still checking to see if something in the chromium code changed since my last release in Factory; but, could it be that something with gcc changed in the buildservice?

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[dbuck]

solved my "-Wmissing-prototypes" problem: A GYP file was calling 'icu-config --cflags', which on a gcc44 system was putting the bad flag in the Make files. Due to a bad patch (my fault.)

chromium-browser is now, finally, under the openSUSE:Factory:Contrib project for 11.1 and Factory (under package 'chromium'.) I still have it in my repo for 11.0, 11.1, and factory.

Patches and SPEC file changes have now been added to make chromium use
zlib, libpng, bzip2, libjpeg, libxml, libxslt from the system; mozilla-nss, mozilla-nspr was recently defaulted to the system's; and in openSUSE 11.1 and higher, use system's libicu as well. I also made sure ffmpeg libraries (for all systems) are being removed before uploading the source.

Updated to 4.0.222.2.svn28528. Still building in my repo... I haven't got the whole build-at-home-and-then-upload thing down yet.

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P.S. I think I love 'osc build'. After the learning curve it is great!

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

dbuck you accomplished what other people couldn't (at least me, too lazy to learn proper packaging )

And it evolves too (as is the browser).

Right now this is my main browser (i didn't use many plugins so i don't miss FF).

[dbuck]

@All

I just thought everyone should know that it is best to use 'chromium' in openSUSE:Factory:Contrib for openSUSE 11.1 and openSUSE 11.2 (Factory) instead of my repo. It is more-or-less semi-official now. (And the packages build faster and have the latest patches. )

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[suezuh]

Brilliant!!! Thank you very much.

For those interested in privacy concerns while using Chromium see:
SRWare Iron - The Browser of the Future

Some of these items can be manually disabled in:
Customize and Control Chromium > Options > Under the Hood

Also see:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome...&answer=107684
http://www.google.com/support/chrome...r=114836&hl=en

[suezuh]

I've just figured out that some Google tracking devices are not present in Chromium. Those that are can be disabled if so desired.

[dbuck]

I've just figured out that some Google tracking devices are not present in Chromium. Those that are can be disabled if so desired.

Yes. The open source 'Chromium' doesn't have anything other than standard search engine suggestions for searches and navigation errors, malware protection, and dns prefetching; all of which can be disabled in 'Under the Hood'.

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