GNUzilla and IceCat

[hansModerator]

Great to see progress on this! Since the GNU IceCat project now has an Android signing key, we use their signing key in F-Droid via the reproducible process. I’m happy to support that as much as is needed to get it done.

[Matías ZúñigaMember]

@chatch here is my metadata file [0]. I try to not download anything in the build process, so i use just hg/git repos. The main repo used in the metadata is from Mozilla [1] and the srclibs used are my fork of the IceCat repo [2] and a repo for the Locales [3] that also has a script that removes all the binaries (used also for fennec)

PS: line 33 is not needed now, I used it because I built IceCat 38.6 before it was released so the script changed the version to 38.5

[0] https://gitlab.com/Manizuca/fdroiddata/blob/IceCat/metadata/org.gnu.icecat.txt
[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr38
[2] https://gitlab.com/Manizuca/IceCat.git
[3] https://gitlab.com/Manizuca/FennecLocales/tree/38esr

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by  Matías Zúñiga.

[teyroMember]

Hi !

Very Very great Idea! Is there a chance that you add the Support for the PaleMoon Token Sever (aka Legacy Sync Service) …. Mozilla killed the Token Server for the easy Sync Access… Its only a one liner change, but males old Sync work again 😉

How is about Multi Language Support?

[Matías ZúñigaMember]

@teyro all the locales are included. I’m not aware of the change that is necessary for the sync service, can you post it?

[teyroMember]

Well thx for fast reply…. 😉

Ive created a forums post on palemoon forums: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=11210 Becuase ive read that the PaleMoon Dev wants to know how is useing his sync server / token server fork… https://www.palemoon.org/sync/ i hope there is a chance to get in touch and it working… It is only a one liner (change one url and get Sync Working again)….

So i hope the best…!

[teyroMember]

Here is the patch https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/commit/51737013245f91df98932379495e7aec2ecfa06a#diff-3b7481e7d6d3febdebe56efcd24efcd1

[Matías ZúñigaMember]

so with this patch the PaleMoon sync server can be used, but not firefox sync (using mozilla servers)?. Im not sure about that… I think that it’s something that should be asked upstream (icecat)

[chatchMember]

hi @matias, the build stuff looks great. i just ran it through to completion so I reckon it’s ready for merge to the main repo. what do you think?

i made a couple of changes to your IceCat fork. makeicecat had some bash syntax errors. preumably differences between Fedora and Debian. see here https://gitlab.com/Manizuca/IceCat/merge_requests/1. also I ran ‘fdroid rewritemeta’ in the fdroiddata fork as the build fails without this. i havn’t done a merge request for that one as I had issues forking your fdroiddata over the top of my fork of the main fdroiddata.

one other issue is the build fails if ANDROID_NDK is not set. it should be set so this is not an issue with the build. but just flagging it as I wasted a bit of time figuring out what was going on. if ANDROID_NDK is not set it results in the string “$ANDROID_NDK” being added to the PATH which is interpreted as a relative directory. this in turn causes find commands with -execdir to fail raising security concerns with relative paths in PATH.

[Matías ZúñigaMember]

@chatch thanks for the MR. F-Droid by default uses $ANDROID_NDK in ndk_paths, you can change it in config.py

[krtModerator]

Moved to completed.

[IldarMember]

completed and … disappeared?

[teyroMember]

Dont know what you want to say?

Is the PaleMoon Token Server intregrated? 😉

[IldarMember]

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=icecat
no such app

[krtModerator]

Only available in the archive, e.g. https://f-droid.org/archive/org.gnu.icecat_380600.apk. Next version will be available in mainline.

[IldarMember]

That’s great, thanks a lot!

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