| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git (read-only, click to copy) |
|---|---|
| Package Base: | icecat |
| Description: | GNU version of the Firefox ESR browser |
| Upstream URL: | https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git |
| Keywords: | browser esr gnuzilla web |
| Licenses: | MPL-2.0 |
| Submitter: | None |
| Maintainer: | figue (xiota) |
| Last Packager: | xiota |
| Votes: | 250 |
| Popularity: | 0.39 |
| First Submitted: | 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-11-30 19:41 (UTC) |
Ok, never mind my previous comment. I've checked icecat with default settings and the only annoying thing with disabled shield icon that I can't see third party cookies. But on the other hand, with enabled shield icon much more confusing information reveal, such like drop down menu says no social media trackers, etc.
Rgds, hg
Hi,
The new icecat upstream completely disabled protection dashboard (shield icon on address bar): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/commit/?id=700ee68e7311a4640232018bdbf77fe96a97b8e8
The purpose and the logic behind this change is not revealed yet, but on my side (I believe on others too) causing troubles.
So made some changes in PKGBUILD. Can you please include till we get answer why dashboard have been disabled?
--- PKGBUILD 2020-09-24 11:52:03.520599455 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD.new 2020-09-24 11:52:15.684629906 +0200
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
sed -e 's/^gpg.*list-keys.*//g' -i makeicecat
sed -e 's/^tar cfj icecat-/#tar cfj icecat-/g' -i makeicecat
+
# rename patches
patch --ignore-whitespace << 'EOF'
--- makeicecat 2020-09-21 23:59:38.942240104 +0200
@@ -91,6 +92,8 @@
rm -rf data/files-to-append/l10n/*
fi
+ find . -iname "hide-protections-dashboard.patch" | xargs rm
+
# Produce IceCat sources
bash makeicecat
cd output/icecat-${pkgver}
Thanks, Rgds, hg
@Terrorizer @figue it probably does have something to do with the rust package. I'm getting the following error when trying to build icecat and waterfox:
0:07.36 checking for rustc... /usr/bin/rustc
0:07.36 checking for cargo... /usr/bin/cargo
0:07.43 DEBUG: Executing: rustup which rustc
0:07.44 DEBUG: The command returned non-zero exit status 1.
0:07.44 DEBUG: Its error output was:
0:07.44 DEBUG: | error: no override and no default toolchain set
0:07.44 ERROR: Command rustup which rustc failed with exit status 1.
0:07.49 *Fix above errors and then restart with
0:07.49 /mach build
0:07.49 make: *** [client.mk:115: configure] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
In resume, every AUR package is managed in a get repo. So you can clone that repo and update it manually. For example, I want the IceCat repo, so I clone the repo first:
$ mkdir $HOME/packages
$ cd $HOME/packages
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/icecat.git
$ cd icecat
then I want to build:
$ makepkg -sic
Done. What happens if a new release came out?
$ cd $HOME/packages/icecat
$ git pull
$ makepkg -sic
@figue ... can you tell me the complete "makepkg" - way in detail please, i wanna try?
@mazzarino huge packages like IceCat is better to add to ignore list, and when you see there is an update, do it manually with "makepkg -sic" when you have the time to do it (so don't use AUR helpers like yay). Cheers.
@figue
Thank You very much! With makepkg the package was successfully build and then it was installed with "pacman -U".
@mazzarino can you execute:
$ cd /home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat
$ makepkg -e
Building fails with the errors:
28:30.76 make[2]: *** [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-15a7c3d991a670b6489d4f432b52a188358f4ca5/output/icecat-68.12.0/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2
28:30.76 make[1]: *** [/home/alen/.cache/yay/icecat/src/gnuzilla-15a7c3d991a670b6489d4f432b52a188358f4ca5/output/icecat-68.12.0/config/rules.mk:413: default] Error 2
28:30.76 make: *** [client.mk:125: build] Error 2 28:30.82 13 compiler warnings present.
28:31.33 /usr/bin/notify-send --app-name=Mozilla Build System Mozilla Build System Build failed
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...
error making: icecat
just download the file, and install it:
sudo pacman -U icecat-68.12.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.bz2
Pinned Comments
xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-08 03:44 (UTC) by xiota)
PKGBUILD has been updated. Major changes:
Notes:
_build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will usexwayland-runfor profiling._build_pgo=false.mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=___around line 300. Pick a value less than number of cores and free RAM in GB. For example, on a system with 8 cores, 64GB total RAM, but only 6 GB free, the value should be set to 4 or 5.libxul.so. Leave a comment if you have a potential solution.Having problems? Please provide details: processor make and model, number of cores,
free -m, full log in pastebin, whether using AUR helper/makepkg/clean chroot, etc.