update.nix was a huuuuge hack, abusing checksum collisions, etc., and
was extremely difficult to read and maintain, especially because
values from update.nix were also used in the derivations themselves!
I've replaced this with an implementation in Python, which I chose for
readability. Rather than generating Nix, I chose to
generate JSON, since Python can do that in the standard library and
Nix can read it.
I also set update.py as an updateScript, so Chromium can now
automatically be updated!
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89635
Note: The following might also need to be updated:
substituteStream(): WARNING: pattern '/usr/share/xcb' doesn't match anything in file 'ui/gfx/x/BUILD.gn'
I didn't look into this yet but IIRC M86 will finally have a flag for
Linux to enable VA-API. So we shouldn't need
enable-video-acceleration-on-linux.patch anymore.
But we likely need to update enable-vdpau-support-for-nvidia.patch
when/before M86 hits the stable channel if we want to keep VDPAU
support.
Ok, so I was about to update the patch (didn't apply anymore) when I
also started looking at it's usage and realized that
NIX_CHROMIUM_PLUGIN_PATH_ (and other substrings) only appears in the
patch itself (i.e. it seemed like we don't need this patch anymore).
Turns out that we have this patch since 2014 (1b84fbf0ca) and it was
only ever used for NIX_CHROMIUM_PLUGIN_PATH_WIDEVINE (and from the log
it isn't clear if/when or how well that worked). But in 2019 that last
usage got removed (545d58a1ef) so we should be able to safely drop this
patch now :) \o/
(I just wanted to note that as it seemed somewhat of a funny story :D
But there is of course nothing wrong with it.)
Git history (git log --oneline -S NIX_CHROMIUM_PLUGIN_PATH_):
7205bd64a3 ungoogled-chromium: init at 81.0.4044.92-2
545d58a1ef chromium: fix widevine
cd3283f921 chromium: 67.0.3396.99 -> 68.0.3440.75
72d7b5ddb1 chromium: fix nix_plugin_paths for 68+
7a3a16dd80 chromium: Remove plugin paths patch for version 50
79d18eb604 chromium: Update dev channel to v52.0.2743.10
c7a3645e7b chromium: Remove stuff for versions <= v51
8b97ca270e chromium: Update all channels to latest versions
b9093f1c64 chromium: Updates, fixes#11492471cdd15e2 chromium: Update beta and dev channels.
5c6aa391fc chromium: Cleanup old patch and update stable
af54ddf8b6 chromium: Drop plugin_paths patch for old versions.
6a8afa4bb3 chromium: Fix plugin_paths patch for version 44.
0aad4b7ee4 chromium: Update all channels to latest versions.
1b84fbf0ca chromium: Allow env vars for passing plugin paths.
This is more robust than depending on the channel, though the version
should only matter if the configuration phase fails.
This also switches to the intended version for `chromium` which should
be higher since M85 is in the stable channel.
Thanks `@volth` for pointing this out.
