Package Details: icecat 115.10.0-1

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: 251
Popularity: 0.80
First Submitted: 2007-12-09 10:12 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-04-29 09:15 (UTC)

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xiota commented on 2024-02-27 10:57 (UTC) (edited on 2024-02-27 10:59 (UTC) by xiota)

icecatbrowser.org is unofficial, separate from GNU, which is stated at the site itself. classictetris.net is used by the site owner to serve the prepatched sources. They are used only when _build_prepatched=true to save time by skipping the patching step. The default is false.

The site was created to fill the gap after GNU stopped distributing prepatched sources and binaries. As far as I can tell, the makeicecat script is run without any modification, while this PKGBUILD does make some changes. For version 115.8.0, the only differences between the prepatched sources and a fresh patch from this PKGBUILD are:

  • services/settings/dumps/monitor/changes – "last_modified" and "collection" entries are different. This is expected because timestamps differ based on when makeicecat is run.

  • Some different l10n files (translations). This is also somewhat expected because the latest commit is checked out prior to patching. Exact contents can differ based on when the script is run.

  • .hg* files and directories. They are not needed, and this PKGBUILD deletes them.

xiota commented on 2024-02-26 07:32 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-13 20:04 (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.

Test builds can be expedited by:

  • Using prepatched sources by setting _build_prepatched=true
  • Using a premade profile.

Notes:

  • 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.

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 2010-09-22 16:42 (UTC)

If the question appears ==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) Say yes, edit the line you see aboth and enter a > at the position, where you can see it here in the comment. It lookls like this depends=("xulrunner=${_xulver}" 'desktop-file-utils') and has to be changed to depends=("xulrunner>=${_xulver}" 'desktop-file-utils') Now icecat is able to install again.

jackoneill commented on 2010-09-22 13:24 (UTC)

@figue: Thanks :) There are indeed no file conflicts between firefox-beta and icecat.

figue commented on 2010-09-22 13:11 (UTC)

@cantabile there's no reason, I think this comes from an old version. I'll remove in the next release.

jackoneill commented on 2010-09-22 12:28 (UTC)

Is there some very good reason for icecat to provide firefox? I want to install firefox-beta, but pacman won't let me, because it conflicts with firefox, and icecat provides firefox. There should be no file conflicts between the two, after all firefox and icecat can live on the same system just fine.

cb474 commented on 2010-09-19 20:51 (UTC)

Yeah, I know they've done that in the past, when there was a release to change one setting in about:config, Gnuzilla didn't upgrade Icecat. But Firefox 3.6.10 was released because users were having issues with it crashing on startup (in Windows, OS X, and Linux). Seems more significant. There may only be a couple lines of code different, but that doesn't mean they don't resolve a real problem. Anyway, I'm not having the crash problem. I was just surprised Gnuzilla wasn't upgrading this time.

jackoneill commented on 2010-09-19 11:39 (UTC)

@cb474: They probably think the differences between 3.6.9 and 3.6.10 are insignificant. You can see for yourself by downloading these two: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.9/source/firefox-3.6.9.source.tar.bz2 http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.10/source/firefox-3.6.10.source.tar.bz2 Put each in its own folder, extract, then run `diff -r firefox369/mozilla-1.9.2 firefox3610/mozilla-1.9.2` There's not much to see, though.

cb474 commented on 2010-09-19 08:53 (UTC)

Yes, I meant on the Gnuzilla site. Why is Gnuzilla not upgrading to 3.6.10. That was my question.

wonder commented on 2010-09-18 20:26 (UTC)

because there is no 3.6.10 version? look in the ftp tree

cb474 commented on 2010-09-18 20:25 (UTC)

Is there a reason why Icecat is not being upgraded to 3.6.10?

jackoneill commented on 2010-09-18 11:04 (UTC)

I just compiled icecat with xulrunner 1.9.2.10 and it works.

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