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ungoogled-chromium-binaries

Website for ungoogled-chromium contributor-submitted binaries (contributor binaries).

IMPORTANT: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed.

Link to the website here

Atom feed for new binaries here.

This website uses GitHub Pages on the master branch.

For problems, suggestions, and questions, please use the Issue tracker.

Developer info

When creating new pages or adding new versions, use an existing version as a template to follow. If you have questions or suggestions, please create an Issue.

Publishing new binaries

Ensure your binary has source code published to a platform repo. Otherwise, your PR will not be merged.

Prerequisites:

  • Python 3 for all scripts under utilities/

Steps

Steps to publish a new binary. An example of these steps is in the next section.

  1. Ensure your binary has source code published to a platform repo.
  2. Fork the main binaries repository (ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-binaries)
    • If this has been done before, pull in new changes from this one if necessary.
  3. Create a new Release (i.e. using GitHub's Release feature) in the fork and upload binaries to it. The tag name used must be unique for each Release; it normally matches the ungoogled-chromium version.
  4. Upload binaries to the new Release
  5. Use utilities/submit_github_binary.py to generate an INI file with the correct URLs to the GitHub Release. It requires paths to a locally stored copy of the binaries for computing hashes. Use the -h or --help argument for more details.
    • If a directory structure in config/platforms doesn't exist for the binary's target platform and version, create the necessary directories with the associated display_name files in the same manner as existing platforms.
  6. Push your changes in the repository; these changes should only be of files in config/. Make a pull request against the main repository.

Notes:

  • submit_github_binary.py is currently restricted to generating INI files with URLs to binaries in GitHub releases. If binaries are uploaded elsewhere, then the INI must be created by other means.
  • Additional changes can be made to the website configuration before step 5 as necessary.

Example

Example command-line steps (with comments, denoted by a hash # symbol). Replace YOURNAME in the steps with your GitHub username.

First-time setup:

# In GitHub, fork ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-binaries to YOURNAME/ungoogled-chromium-binaries
git clone https://github.com/YOURNAME/ungoogled-chromium-binaries.git
cd ungoogled-chromium-binaries
git remote add upstream https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-binaries.git
git config branch.master.remote upstream
git config branch.master.pushRemote origin

Publish binaries:

The following example demonstrates publishing Debian 9 (buster) amd64 packages located in /home/user/ungoogled-chromium/build/ (which is assumed to be the shell expanded form of ~/ungoogled-chromium/build/) for ungoogled-chromium version 99.0.1234.567-1:

# In GitHub, create a new Release on YOURNAME/ungoogled-chromium-binaries with a name "99.0.1234.567-1" (without quotes) and a new tag "99.0.1234.567-1" (without quotes; insert it into the tag field). Upload all necessary files from /home/user/ungoogled-chromium/buildspace/ into the Release.
cd ungoogled-chromium-binaries # The same as the one setup above
git pull
# Create the directories debian/ and debian/buster_amd64 with corresponding display_name files in config/platforms/ ONLY if they do NOT exist.
# NOTE: You can use either --git to fetch the latest tag on the current branch, or specify it manually with --tag
./utilities/submit_github_binary.py --git path/to/ungoogled-chromium-debian --username YOURNAME --output config/platforms/debian/buster_amd64/ ~/ungoogled-chromium/build/ungoogled-chromium*
# A commit will be created automatically. Ensure commits are correct before proceeding
git push
# In GitHub, create a pull request in ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-binaries with the new change in YOURNAME/ungoogled-chromium-binaries

Testing changes

python3 -m pip install -r utilities/requirements.txt
python3 utilities/site_generator.py
./utilities/local_server.py
# Open a webpage to http://localhost:8086

External resources