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Re: Tor Browser
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Tor Browser |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Jun 2016 12:05:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
> What it does is the following:
>
> A shallow checkout of https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git
> which is usually pinned to a tag specified in the gitian build
> repository of torproject for tor-browser,
> pull in gentoo specific patchsets for the firefox version,
> pull in an architecture specific torbrowser from either
> https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/${PN}/${TOR_PV}or
> https://dist.torproject.org/${PN}/${TOR_PV} (arch is x86 or amd64),
> prepare the source:
> 1. apply firefox patches
> 2. revert "change the default firefox profile directory to be tbb-relative"
> (patch)
> 3. allow the lightspark and freshplayerplugins for whatever reasons (except
> them from a blocklist)
> 4. fix some nss problems
> 5. set the plugins directory to the global one of gentoo
> 6. fix sandbox violations
> etc etc (very similar to firefox at this point and before it)
> configure:
> rename install executables and directories
> disable the update + set the tor-browser version
> install (build):
> some orientation around the tor-browser-bunde.git repository
> some firefox again
> set a profile
> install files.
I suppose TB contains a script that does all that, right? Would it work
to simply run it? If it invokes wget/curl, then this needs to be
replaced, but the rest should be fine.
It’s unfortunate that there’s no ready-to-build TB tarball, that would
simplify things for us.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Re: patches question, (continued)
- Re: patches question, ng0, 2016/06/23
- Re: patches question, Andreas Enge, 2016/06/23
- Re: patches question, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/06/24
- Re: patches question, ng0, 2016/06/24
- Tor Browser, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/06/24
- Re: Tor Browser, ng0, 2016/06/24
- Re: Tor Browser,
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- Re: Tor Browser, ng0, 2016/06/29
- Re: Tor Browser, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/06/30
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