This patch restructures the expression and wrapper to minimize Nix store
references captured by the user's state directory.
The previous version would write lots of references to the Nix store into
the user's state directory, resulting in synchronization issues between
the Store and the local state directory. At best, this would cause TBB to
stop working when the version used to instantiate the local state was
garbage collected; at worst, a user would continue to use the old version
even after an upgrade.
To solve the issue, hard-code as much as possible at the Store side and
minimize the amount of stuff being copied into the local state dir.
Currently, only a few files generated at firefox startup and fontconfig
cache files end up capturing store paths; these files are simply removed
upon every startup. Otherwise, no capture should occur and the user
should always be using the TBB associated with the tor-browser wrapper
script.
To check for stale Store paths, do
`grep -Ero '/nix/store/[^/]+' ~/.local/share/tor-browser`
This command should *never* return any other store path than the one
associated with the current tor-browser wrapper script, even after an
update (assuming you've run tor-browser at least once after updating).
Deviations from this general rule are considered bugs from now on.
Note that no attempt has been made to support pluggable transports; they
are still broken with this patch (to be fixed in a follow-up patch).
User visible changes:
- Wrapper retains only environment variables required for TBB to work
- pulseaudioSupport can be toggled independently of mediaSupport (the
latter weakly implies the former).
- Store local state under $TBB_HOME. Defaults to $XDG_DATA_HOME/tor-browser
- Stop obnoxious first-run stuff (NoScript redirect, in particular)
- Set desktop item GenericName to Web Browser
Some minor enhancements:
- Disable Hydra builds
- Specify system -> source mapping to make it easier to
extend supported platforms.
Set MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER for firefox as per [1] (see [2] for detailed discussion).
Firefox will recognise itself across verions, skipping the 'not-the-default-browser' prompt.
Firefox will also write sane paths to the generated desktop file, should someone ever set it as default through the 'not-the-default-browser' prompt.
Also removed the unnecessary libtrick cruft.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611953
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593948
There was no release for luakit in the last 5 years, so I suggest to
remove it. Also because there are alternatives for vi-like browsers.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
requiredSystemFeatures is not a meta attribute but a derivation
attribute. So "big-parallel" was being ignored on e.g. chromium,
causing it to be built (and timing out) on slow machines.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/45819778#tabs-buildsteps
Firefox uses a google API to perform geolocation. This API requires a
key which must be given at build time. This commit adds the key from
Chromium's derivation to Firefox.
Versions before 56 already had experimental support for Gtk 3 and since
version 56, Gtk 3 _seemed_ to become the default. Although it's now
requiring *both* Gtk 2 and Gtk3, so let's supply the dependency for now
to get it to build.
In the future however we might want to add use_gtk3 to the GN flags and
get rid of Gtk 2 completely.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Before version 54, the WideVine CDM plugin was built unconditionally and
it seems since version 54 this now is dependent upon a GYP/GN flag on
whether to include the CDM shared library or not.
Also, we now use a patch from Gentoo which should hopefully get the CDM
plugin to work properly, at least according to their bugtracker:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547630
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Overview of updated versions:
stable: 54.0.2840.71 -> 54.0.2840.90
beta: 55.0.2883.21 -> 55.0.2883.35
dev: 56.0.2897.0 -> 56.0.2906.0
This is to get our Chromium versions in par with the latest upstream
ones before merging in the GN migration changes.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
So far we had the bundled Flash player plugin that came with Chrome, but
since version 54 the Chrome package doesn't include PPAPI Flash anymore.
Instead we're going to download the PPAPI Flash plugin directly from
Adobe and try to use them for all release channels of Chromium.
Of course it would be nice if we'd have an updater for it but for now
it's important that we don't break things for people who are currently
forced to use Flash.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Seems that these libraries aren't the ones Chromium is expecting to be,
so let's switch to use the bundled version of these libraries instead.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Previously I've added the extra file common-gn.nix in addition to
common.nix, so we can possibly have a smooth transition from current
stable to the new version 54.
Unfortunately, version 53 is already EOL and we have to move to version
54 as soon as possible so we can only use GN and thus it doesn't make
sense to provide expressions for GYP anymore.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This should now be the upstream default and there also is no more flag
for GN to set it, so we'll no longer need it on our side as well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This only uses the most basic GN flags which should represent the GYP
flags we had before. In order to get rid most of the GYP cruft, we now
have common.nix and common-gn.nix which are mostly the same, just that
the latter is only for GN builds.
The GN implementation is far from complete and currently not even
builds, so we need more work to get the beta and dev channels building.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
