Building chromium, how to pack it into rpm?

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Looks like you'll have to build 32 bit packages as it barfs a lot in here I installed every possible 32 bit devel package and it still barfs

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

checkinstall --exclude=/ --inspect make

I've been using check install for a while, ... and never noted that set of arguments before. Neat. I'll have to try it.

A caution on the rpms built by checkinstall. Overall, they are not as good as rpms created the long way (which I do not know how to do) and you could read of people struggling with the checkinstall created rpm. Checkinstall tends to be best with rpms on one's own PC.

I use checkinstall, so I can copy it to other PC's on my LAN (where I keep the same configuration across all PCs) and if I have to do a re-install (rarely happens) than I do not have to rebuild ... I just pull out the rpm I created for myself.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Well the thing is oldcpu, that while i built succesfully the browser i had no makefile to "make install", so i was left with already built files which i can use and other people. So what i did is i put those built files where i'd like them to be after normal rpm installation, created the desktop file, symlink to exececutable. So while building may fail at all i can always add custom files/directories for it to be included in the rpm file (thanks to --inspect). So while normally the output of building chromium was in /home/<user>/Programs/chromium/src/out/Release/ i just copied it to /opt/google/chrome/ and then with --inspect i added it to the files that will be included in the rpm and --exclude=/ excludes every file from being included into rpm BUT i will include the directories myself won't i ??

So in practice i can make an rpm out of any file/directory, i just need one package that contains a Makefile to be able to invoke make because without that i can't create rpm from the file/directory

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

Looks like you'll have to build 32 bit packages as it barfs a lot in
here I installed every possible 32 bit devel package and it still
barfs

Hi Again
Ok I finally have it build by hand, there is a lot of prep work to do
including install of the 32bit versions of some rpms and creating
softlinks to the libraries as per their script. Having to do that and
the softlinks for the fonts pretty well excludes it from using the OBS
at the moment as far as I can see

That being said, I'm goinf to build a new 64bit 11.1 machine and run a
further test to see if I've missed anything and document the build
environment I used. Then it's just a matter of updating the source,
bzipping it, dumping in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES along with a spec
file and it should be good to go.....

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[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Yeah, it's better to pack it even more Sources alone will take 100MB and after unpacking 860 ??

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

Looks like you'll have to build 32 bit packages as it barfs a lot in
here I installed every possible 32 bit devel package and it still
barfs

Hi
Ok, have built the 64bit version added a link to flashplayer in
plugins, linked to all the fonts added a desktop file yadda yadda

I had to build on the SLED machine as I need more RAM to allocate RAM
for the VM....

Anyway, here are links to src rpm and my 64bit build;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090824.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090824.1.x86_64.rpm>

Here is a link to the spec file to build;
<http://www.nopaste.com/p/adPVzEAmu>

You just need to rename the Release directory, add the Author and
License file directory before bzipping it up.

Since it's only the build file and other bits and not the true source
(2+ GB) I think you should write a short text file on how you built it
on your machine and the add to the Release directory before bzipping,
then update the %doc part of the %files section with the name so it
gets added to your rpm.

The whole build process could also be automated via a cron job to
update the source, build a new release, copy files, bzip and build the
rpm as well which may be worth looking at

Note technically, I think someone could ask you for your build
environment source as well, but that is unlikely.....

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[BenderBendingRodriguez]

That's great malcolm, thanks!! Unfortunatelly i will be off to germany for about two weeks so i won't be able to do anything with that, THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!!

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

That's great malcolm, thanks!! Unfortunatelly i will be off to germany
for about two weeks so i won't be able to do anything with that, THANK
YOU ONCE AGAIN!!

Hi
Here are the depot tools packaged up for you as well;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/depot_tools-1.0-1.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/depot_tools-1.0-1.1.noarch.rpm>

I have also updated the source and build for chrome. Fixed it so the
flash works (forgot to enable plugins) and added the 64bit flash;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090826.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090826.1.x86_64.rpm>

Updated spec file;
<http://www.nopaste.com/p/amYNpgJCob>

Here is a script to automate the zipping etc for the file as well
direct from the ..../src directory which is where you need to be

#!/bin/bash
NAME=google-chrome-unstable
VERSION=4.0.203
RELEASE=$NAME-$VERSION
cd out
echo "Deleting obj build directory..."
/bin/rm -Rf Release/obj/
echo "Finding and deleting .d files..."
/usr/bin/find -iname '*.d' -print -exec /bin/rm {} \;
/bin/mv Release $RELEASE
/bin/cp ../AUTHORS $RELEASE/
/bin/cp ../LICENSE $RELEASE/
echo "Bzipping file..."
/bin/tar -cf $RELEASE.tar $RELEASE
echo "Stage 1 completed"
/usr/bin/gzip $RELEASE.tar
echo "Stage 2 completed"
/usr/bin/bznew $RELEASE.tar.gz
echo "Stage 3 completed"
/bin/mv $RELEASE.tar.bz2 /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/
/bin/mv $RELEASE Release
cd ..
echo "*** Finished and moved to SOURCES ***"

Note to others, this 11.1 rpm also works with SLE11

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[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by Malcolm

Hi
Here are the depot tools packaged up for you as well;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/depot_tools-1.0-1.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/depot_tools-1.0-1.1.noarch.rpm>

I have also updated the source and build for chrome. Fixed it so the
flash works (forgot to enable plugins) and added the 64bit flash;
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090826.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090826.1.x86_64.rpm>

Updated spec file;
<http://www.nopaste.com/p/amYNpgJCob>

Here is a script to automate the zipping etc for the file as well
direct from the ..../src directory which is where you need to be

#!/bin/bash
NAME=google-chrome-unstable
VERSION=4.0.203
RELEASE=$NAME-$VERSION
cd out
echo "Deleting obj build directory..."
/bin/rm -Rf Release/obj/
echo "Finding and deleting .d files..."
/usr/bin/find -iname '*.d' -print -exec /bin/rm {} \;
/bin/mv Release $RELEASE
/bin/cp ../AUTHORS $RELEASE/
/bin/cp ../LICENSE $RELEASE/
echo "Bzipping file..."
/bin/tar -cf $RELEASE.tar $RELEASE
echo "Stage 1 completed"
/usr/bin/gzip $RELEASE.tar
echo "Stage 2 completed"
/usr/bin/bznew $RELEASE.tar.gz
echo "Stage 3 completed"
/bin/mv $RELEASE.tar.bz2 /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/
/bin/mv $RELEASE Release
cd ..
echo "*** Finished and moved to SOURCES ***"

Note to others, this 11.1 rpm also works with SLE11

Hi
Now also noticed that I can add the gecko-mediaplayer libs so that you
can play mp4, quicktime etc hmmm needs to do some testing...

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[malcolmlewis]

[QUOTE=Malcolm][QUOTE=Malcolm]

Originally Posted by BenderBendingRodriguez

That's great malcolm, thanks!! Unfortunatelly i will be off to germany
for about two weeks so i won't be able to do anything with that, THANK
YOU ONCE AGAIN!!

Hi
I have updated the source (yet again) build for chrome this morning
and also have enable extensions now in the startup.
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090827.1.src.rpm>
<http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/4/6/2393623/RPMs/openSUSE_11_1/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203-svn20090827.1.x86_64.rpm>

Updated spec file;
<http://www.nopaste.com/p/a8FxhQjLG>

On this system I've installed adsweep and sticky notes extensions.
Hopefully someone has Mplayer (gnome-mplayer) installed and see how the
gecko-mediaplayer goes.

To see installed extensions in the URL bar enter;
chrome://extensions

For plugins it's like Firefox aboutlugins

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