Package Details: icecat 115.17.0-1

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: 0.42
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-04 00:48 (UTC)

Dependencies (51)

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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:

  • Downloads Firefox ESR and localization using the source array. Files are saved for reuse.
  • Saves freshly patched IceCat sources in a tarball for reuse.
  • Saves the PGO profile for reuse.

Notes:

  • Currently requires clang/llvm 17, which has to be built from AUR.
  • Wayland users, consider setting _build_pgo_xvfb=false. This will use xwayland-run for profiling.
  • PGO should work now, but if it doesn't and you're willing to go without, try _build_pgo=false.
  • Running out of RAM? Try adding 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.
    • If a few people can confirm this is helpful, I will consider adding it as an additional option.
    • Main resource hog seems to be linking 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.

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<deleted-account> commented on 2015-04-09 16:56 (UTC)

@parasitid: No, the GPG key is fine. You have to import the key into your keyring before building: $ gpg --recv-key 3C76EED7D7E04784 If you then get 'trust' errors on your next build: $ gpg --edit-key 3C76EED7D7E04784 type in 5 to ultimately trust save Questions? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG @figue: Thank you for making those changes! However, you did not update the 2nd source=() to https and it is also broken URL (not .xz, we use .bz2). Also, at the end of the 2nd source=(), ${pkgver} should be ${_pkgver} as the latter doesn't exist. Lastly, building gnu1.tar.bz is successful but segfaults on startup for no apparent reason and never successfully runs. Debugging/strace'ing doesn't show much promise so I would like to try building the other variants before reporting upstream but any attempts to make icecat-31.6.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 results in this package error: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-localhost/aur-icecat/./PKGBUILD: line 48: cd: /tmp/makepkg/icecat/src/icecat-31.6.0: No such file or directory Making the appropriate PKGBUILD changes only leads to a series of more problems because the PKGBUILD design, as a whole, is not accommodating the different source bz2 directory layouts. Can this package be made to check for OS arch and then build the appropriate source? Thank you for the work you've done and if you can figure this all out, huge kudos to you! If you need help with a patch, I'll see what I can do.

parasitid commented on 2015-04-09 14:51 (UTC)

yesterday's built 31.6.0-gnu1 seems to be broken due to invalid pgp key... ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... icecat-31.6.0-gnu1.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 3C76EED7D7E04784) ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

figue commented on 2015-04-08 20:40 (UTC)

@archaurwiki Thank you. All recommendations are included now.

<deleted-account> commented on 2015-04-08 16:31 (UTC)

@figue: Hello, will you please consider these important changes to this package: 1) VERY IMPORTANT: enable GPG checking for the bz2. Signatures are included in the upstream directory and there is absolutely no reason to not include GPG checking to verify the integrity and validity of the source. 2) Please consider changing the source=() URLs to https 3) Please consider changing the md5sums=() to sha256 or sha512 As it currently stands, this package offers absolute minimum security and no one should use it if they expect any confidence or certainty that their icecat hasn't been tampered with mid-stream. I hope you can make these package changes quickly; they are somewhat standard these days. Also, you are correct to not include libre.patch, thank you.

figue commented on 2015-04-05 20:00 (UTC)

@Twilight_Genesis thanks. But as we are in an Arch Linux community and I want to follow The Arch Way[1], I don't want to include any patch that modify the main project. We can always discuss a particular case, but people in GNU are who decide what is included and what not. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

Twilight_Genesis commented on 2015-04-05 00:46 (UTC)

@figue The patch fixes some freedom related issues with things like search engines. I believe it does more and may fix a few technical issues as well. Here is where I got the patch: https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/plain/libre/icecat/libre.patch I haven't tried using it to your PKGBUILD yet, but it may be something for you to look at.

figue commented on 2015-04-04 23:34 (UTC)

@Twilight_Genesis ok. I don't know why extra-x86_64-build doesn't get the sources. As I said, I've been using that method for some time and always worked. I don't know anything on that patch... Should be here? https://www.parabola.nu/packages/libre/x86_64/icecat/ And, what is this for?

Twilight_Genesis commented on 2015-04-04 22:02 (UTC)

@figue extra-x86_64-build says it cannot download the sources, but I was able to build it using makechrootpkg and it worked. Have you considered using the libre.patch from Parabola's IceCat package? It just seems like it would be more inline with the concept of using IceCat over vanilla Firefox.

figue commented on 2015-04-04 18:21 (UTC)

Pushed 31.6.0-2. The only changes are in dependencies. To make sure, I just copy the same packages than Firefox in [extra] (except for xorg-server-xvfb). And I refreshed my repo. @Twilight_Genesis Do you have Firefox installed too? I use extra-i686-build and extra-x86_64-build scripts from devtools.

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