Packaging
This is a list of TODO & WIP for Chromium in Ubuntu.
For build instructions, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Build
The Ubuntu packaging branch is located in LP: bzr branch lp:chromium-browser
Daily debs for Hardy to Karmic: https://edge.launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
debian/copyright
- src tarball needs a full review
- debian/licensecheck.pl is an attempt to simplify the task
system libs
- DONE: zlib (still need in-source for contrib/minizip/*), bzip2, libxml2, libxslt, libjpeg, libpng, libsqlite3
- unpatched: libevent, pcre
- patched: icu, hunspell(?), lzma_sdk(?), ffmpeg (multi-threaded)
- other: v8, webkit, skia, gtest, libtest, gmock, googleurl, modp_b64
shared libs
GYP_DEFINES="library=shared_library"
- a lot of duplicated code making the debs unnecessary huge
chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_amd64.deb (17.3 MiB) chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_i386.deb (17.3 MiB) chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_lpia.deb (15.2 MiB) chromium-browser-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_amd64.deb (123.0 MiB) chromium-browser-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_i386.deb (123.0 MiB) chromium-browser-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_lpia.deb (117.2 MiB) chromium-testsuite_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_amd64.deb (184.6 MiB) chromium-testsuite_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_i386.deb (184.6 MiB) chromium-testsuite_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_lpia.deb (169.7 MiB) chromium-testsuite-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_amd64.deb (724.4 MiB) chromium-testsuite-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_i386.deb (724.3 MiB) chromium-testsuite-dbg_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3_lpia.deb (684.3 MiB) chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3.diff.gz (11.7 KiB) chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142-0ubuntu1~ucd3.dsc (2.0 KiB) chromium-browser_3.0.193.0~svn20090708r20142.orig.tar.gz (114.4 MiB)
- load time penalty?
vendor ID in User Agent
See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17095
=> rejected by upstream
make inspector optional
- DONE as chromium-browser-inspector
ffmpeg-mt
- (for the HTML5 audio/video tags)
- DONE as chromium-codecs-ffmpeg(-nonfree)
sandboxing
- DONE: suid sandbox
- seccomp sandbox
plugins
DONE: Possible by adding --enable-plugins to either:
- the command line
- CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS in the user environment
- CHROMIUM_FLAGS in /etc/chromium-browser/default
flash
- starting to work, somehow.
o3d
crashes in InitializePlugin() [free() of invalid pointer]
extensions / addons
- add the extension flags to the launcher script?
--enable-extensions --load-extension="/some/path"
how to provide both a system path and a user path?
- package a few extensions
- most requested are adblock, greasemonkey and noscript
- themes?
lang packs
- DONE as chromium-browser-l10n
dictionaries
- dicts are downloaded on demand, should use the system dicts instead
Chromium/Packaging (last edited 2009-08-22 01:18:50 by APuteaux-154-1-93-222)