Re: torbrowser

[Ludovic Courtès]

ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:

> NixOS in Nixpkgs[2] makes use of patchelf to just fix up the prebuild
> variant found on dist.torproject.org.
>
>
> I suspect that the way Nix 'fixes' this is a no-go for us.

Indeed.  :-)

> My idea is now to just reconstruct what torproject does, from the git
> checkout of torbrowser[3] and eventually later fix Guix specific issues
> and fine tuning (freedom issues etc etc). 

Sounds like a plan.

> Cloning takes a rather long time, this is where Andy's shallow-clone
> would be useful, which is where I ran into issue and delayed re-working
> this for now. If someone is interested I can post the patch which
> applied on master recently.

If you’ve made changes to what Andy posted back then, or if it doesn’t
work as you want, please post and make it clear what’s left to address.

Thanks,
Ludo’.