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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
Subject: [bug#28004] Chromium
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:32:22 +0000

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> ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is> writes:
> 
> > Once we merge this into master, can we document the update procedure?
> > Or even better, write an update script if possible? For me it was 40%
> > hit everything which doesn't move and take what's left over and 60%
> > reading. I understand the code, but some people might want an
> > explanation for how it's decided which folder gets to stay.
> 
> The "preserved-club" are simply third_party directories that are
> necessary for the build.  Removing any single one will cause the build
> to fail (in theory, there might be outdated entries..).
> 
> It's difficult to automate because you don't know what's needed until
> the build process starts and fails because of some missing dependency.

Hm okay.
Yes, I noticed. But they usually fail very early, so it's just 4 - 20
minutes waiting depending on your harddrive and network speed.

> > Not related to this section, but: NixOS has a "sandbox" output for Chromium
> > which "contains the sandboxed wrapper" of Chromium. Maybe it requires something
> > Nix/NixOS specific, maybe we can add that.
> 
> I guess that's for the SUID sandbox binary.  I haven't had a reason to
> build that because the user namespace sandbox works just fine.  Perhaps
> it's useful for distributions that don't have user namespaces enabled?

Maybe, it's worth investigating. I haven't looked at it very much.

> 
> >> +                 ;; TODO: Install icons from "../../chrome/app/themes" into
> >> +                 ;; "out/share/icons/hicolor/$size".
> >
> > I have more icons here in my definition, the whole section looked like...
> >
> >> +                 (install-file
> >> +                  "product_logo_48.png"
> >> +                  (string-append out "/share/icons/48x48/chromium.png"))
> >
> > this:
> >
> > +                 ;; XXX: What about ../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/linux/?
> > +                 (for-each
> > +                  (lambda (file)
> > +                    (let* ((size (string-filter char-numeric? file))
> > +                           (icons (string-append out "/share/icons/hicolor/"
> > +                                                 size "x" size "/apps")))
> > +                      (mkdir-p icons)
> > +                      (copy-file file (string-append icons "/chromium.png"))))
> > +                  '("../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_128.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_22.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_22_mono.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_24.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_256.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_48.png"
> > +                    "../../chrome/app/theme/chromium/product_logo_64.png"))
> 
> Nice.  Now the next step is to generate the latter list, maybe with
> find-files?
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for your continued work on this monster ;)

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