| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-nightly.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | firefox-nightly |
| Description: | Development version of the popular Firefox web browser |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/#nightly |
| Keywords: | browser gecko web |
| Licenses: | MPL-2.0 |
| Submitter: | None |
| Maintainer: | heftig |
| Last Packager: | heftig |
| Votes: | 608 |
| Popularity: | 0.010793 |
| First Submitted: | 2008-09-10 14:23 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-04-30 09:10 (UTC) |
@pmarreck: This package does not build from source, it downloads prebuild artifacts from Mozilla. Those are only provided for i686 and x86_64. No one ever wanted to push a firefox-nightly source build, because you would have to rebuild constantly and it takes hour each time.
That being said there is a source package (with nightly builds, that I’ve been using for a long time now instead of this AUR package) on heftig repo at https://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/packages/firefox-nightly/.
So I'm trying to build this on manjaro-aarch64. I added aarch64 to the allowed build architectures in PKGBUILD (because this usually works, I've built things from source before this way, although am generally new to Manjaro). I am erroring inside the package() function on the copy step: "cp: cannot stat 'firefox': No such file or directory" I added some debug commands prior to the error (pwd, ls -al etc.) and reran the build and yep, there's no "firefox" in there, which means... a previous step failed, but didn't error, or something? I'm not sure.
Dear all, last two days I see the following error: ==> Updated version: firefox-nightly 86.0a1.20210114-1 ==> ERROR: A package has already been built. (use -f to overwrite) Even if I downloaded a new package and, for me, it is actually 2021-01-15: Extracting 20210115-firefox-86.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 with bsdtar
The other days it was the same just different dates. Even if I delete everything and build a package, after installation it does not work correctly - it must be killed.
oh, I see. that's pretty odd but thanks
The latest version is retrieved by checking a particular text file upstream. Checksums are embedded in the PGP signature file, so they are retrieved with it, and verified using gpg.
that's weird, how does that even work?
@sperg512: They don’t change, see https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=firefox-nightly&id=7643c5788bb3555dc2d49ce8a757f55896d2d39d
@Archange even the sums?
@json: Extensions from packages are not compatible IIRC, because they wont be installed at the correct place, they actually requires firefox, not firefox-developer nor nightly.
@sperg512: Your script is indeed useless, because I’m changing even less than what @DaOfficial said, basically I’m only updating the _version line, everything else (including pkgver) is automated.
Hello if anyone is wondering how to update this pkgbuild on their own systems. As long as you have a x86_64 system (I assume i686 users won't have to change anything either but I don't a i686 system so I can't test that and know for sure.) all you have to do is update the _version line and the pkgver line. The sha512sums and pgpkeys haven't changed in anyway and it built fine on my system.
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heftig commented on 2022-07-27 22:26 (UTC)
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-nightlypackage for Arch Linux.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.