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Instead of building this yourself, please use the repository from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157.

Not only do you skip the very time-consuming builds, but the published package also has debug symbols at Mozilla's crash reports service, which helps tremendously with finding or filing bugs for any crashes you get.

I consider this the canonical firefox-nightly package for Arch Linux.

[heftig]
SigLevel = Optional
Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/$arch

Alternatively, download Firefox Nightly straight from Mozilla, extract it to a writable place (e.g. ~/.local/firefox-nightly) and let it update itself using the integrated updater.

Hello, I managed to build and install firefox-nightly-105.0a1+20220729.1+h1452abb71f59-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

So far, so good. After running it, I was surprised it has ignored all my previous settings, extensions, passwords, etc. from 103 version. Is it meant to be such a way? How can I import all of my previous settings?

Have tried this patch ...

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 5eff445..b2a2d77 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Contributor: Jakub Schmidtke <sjakub@gmail.com>

 pkgname=firefox-nightly
-pkgver=105.0a1+20220727.1+ha948931a2595
+pkgver=105.0a1+20220728.1+h2d32ee893048
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Development version of the popular Firefox web browser"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ url="https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/#nightly"
 depends=(gtk3 libxt mime-types dbus-glib ffmpeg nss ttf-font libpulse)
 makedepends=(unzip zip diffutils yasm mesa imake inetutils xorg-server-xvfb
              autoconf2.13 rust clang llvm jack nodejs cbindgen nasm
-             python-setuptools python-zstandard lld dump_syms
+             python-setuptools python-zstandard python-psutil lld dump_syms
              wasi-compiler-rt wasi-libc wasi-libc++ wasi-libc++abi
              mercurial)
 optdepends=('networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks'
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ _repo=https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
 source=("hg+$_repo"
         firefox-install-dir.patch
         zstandard-0.18.0.diff
+        psutil-5.9.1.diff
         $pkgname.desktop identity-icons-brand.svg)
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
             'c80937969086550237b0e89a02330d438ce17c3764e43cc5d030cb21c2abce5f'
             'a6857ad2f2e2091c6c4fdcde21a59fbeb0138914c0e126df64b50a5af5ff63be'
+            'c9afb78ca078e25d7dd831ae3a8c325424f7298c26234712b1d0d4185fc37d53'
             '7d90a9abacb5cc9870a31323ef31e361f620538c56609001d6d9e789b99b5e97'
             'a9b8b4a0a1f4a7b4af77d5fc70c2686d624038909263c795ecc81e0aec7711e9')
 validpgpkeys=('14F26682D0916CDD81E37B6D61B7B526D98F0353') # Mozilla Software Releases <release@mozilla.com>
@@ -75,6 +77,9 @@ prepare() {
   # Unbreak build with python-zstandard 0.18.0
   patch -Np1 -i ../zstandard-0.18.0.diff

+  # Unbreak build with python-psutil 5.9.1
+  patch -Np1 -i ../psutil-5.9.1.diff
+
   echo -n "$_google_api_key" >google-api-key
   echo -n "$_mozilla_api_key" >mozilla-api-key

diff --git a/psutil-5.9.1.diff b/psutil-5.9.1.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6458198
--- /dev/null
+++ b/psutil-5.9.1.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+diff --git i/python/sites/mach.txt w/python/sites/mach.txt
+index 01f4f8c23da3b..85cfaf2b273ac 100644
+--- i/python/sites/mach.txt
++++ w/python/sites/mach.txt
+@@ -134,4 +134,4 @@ pypi-optional:glean-sdk==50.1.0:telemetry will not be collected
+ # We aren't (yet) able to pin packages in automation, so we have to
+ # support down to the oldest locally-installed version (5.4.2).
+-pypi-optional:psutil>=5.4.2,<=5.8.0:telemetry will be missing some data
++pypi-optional:psutil>=5.4.2,<=5.9.1:telemetry will be missing some data
+ pypi-optional:zstandard>=0.11.1,<=0.18.0:zstd archives will not be possible to extract

Got the following ...

WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.3; however, version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/tmp/tmp7iip15g0/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
flask 2.1.3 has requirement click>=8.0, but you have click 7.1.2.
flask 2.1.3 has requirement Jinja2>=3.0, but you have jinja2 2.11.3.
black 22.6.0 has requirement click>=8.0.0, but you have click 7.1.2.

So flask is being taken from system and the other stuff is from mozilla-central/third_party so things doesn't add up. Couldn't everything be used from third_party or something?

@xuiqzy No, the debug symbols of the official builds should have identical quality.

@heftig Thanks for providing the build! Does the official build straight from Mozilla also has worse debug symbols than the build from your repo? If so, why, is it about debug symbols of the dependencies?

@spastorino I think I encountered this before, but just worked around it by removing python-psutil from the makedeps, so the build container does not have it installed.

You can try patching the version check like zstandard-0.18.0.diff does for python-zstandard. Please report back if you try this.

That said, please use the prebuilt package for the reasons given in the pinned comment.

It's failing to install for me, python-psutil on system is 5.9.1 but the package requires psutil<=5.8.0,>=5.4.2.

WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.3; however, version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/tmp/tmpkzr4yqpt/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
psutil<=5.8.0,>=5.4.2: Installed with unexpected version "5.9.1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/./mach", line 96, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/./mach", line 88, in main
    mach = check_and_get_mach(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/./mach", line 35, in check_and_get_mach
    return load_mach(dir_path, mach_path)
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/./mach", line 21, in load_mach
    return mach_initialize.initialize(dir_path)
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/build/mach_initialize.py", line 153, in initialize
    _activate_python_environment(
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/build/mach_initialize.py", line 99, in _activate_python_environment
    mach_environment.activate()
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/python/mach/mach/site.py", line 359, in activate
    self.ensure()
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/python/mach/mach/site.py", line 337, in ensure
    result = self._up_to_date()
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/python/mach/mach/site.py", line 322, in _up_to_date
    _assert_pip_check(
  File "/home/santiago/src/aur/firefox-nightly/src/mozilla-central/python/mach/mach/site.py", line 1106, in _assert_pip_check
    raise Exception(
Exception: The "mach" site is not compatible with the installed system Python packages.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
[santiago@galago firefox-nightly (master)]$ pacman -Ss python-psutil
community/python-psutil 5.9.1-1 [installed]
    A cross-platform process and system utilities module for Python

Instead of building this yourself, please use the repository from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157.

Not only do you skip the very time-consuming builds, but the published package also has debug symbols at Mozilla's crash reports service, which helps tremendously with finding or filing bugs for any crashes you get.

I consider this the canonical firefox-nightly package for Arch Linux.

[heftig]
SigLevel = Optional
Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/repo/$arch

Alternatively, download Firefox Nightly straight from Mozilla, extract it to a writable place (e.g. ~/.local/firefox-nightly) and let it update itself using the integrated updater.

firefox-nightly will now be tracking the Arch build provided by heftig (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117157). The current package will be moved to firefox-nightly-bin instead, and updated to 104 as required.

needs a bump to v104.