ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes: > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> I suppose TB contains a script that does all that, right? Would it work >>>> to simply run it? If it invokes wget/curl, then this needs to be >>>> replaced, but the rest should be fine. >>> >>> It's not that easy I'm afraid. >>> Currently they use a gitian build, as described in this README[0], >>> which the person maintaining the torbrowser ebuild for Gentoo out >>> of portage replicates and follows in parts. >>> It can't be followed completely, as `builders/tor-browser-bundle' >>> requires a checkout of gitian of the torproject.org >>> >>> So we have to look at what they do and recreate this build >>> procedure, there's no individual Makefile, the releases are >>> created in VMs. >>> >>> Dependencies are kept up to date here[1]. >>> >>> This[2] is the script connecting/using gitian for gnu-linux releases. >>> >>> The Makefile just runs the corresponding scripts. >> >> Gitian is about building binaries. There must be some script somewhere >> to apply the relevant patches to the source first, before one builds it, >> no? >> >>>> It’s unfortunate that there’s no ready-to-build TB tarball, that would >>>> simplify things for us. >>> >>> Yes.. But I think icecat suffers from the same problem, only that >>> icecat tarballs/binaries are built using a bash script applying >>> all that's needed to the firefox sources again. >> >> IceCat publishes source tarballs that, AIUI, are produced essentially by >> running a script that patches Firefox’s code base (same approach for >> Linux-libre.) >> >> Thanks, >> Ludo’. > > There are the .mar files, which I suppose are the built source of > torbrowser, but I can't tell for sure since i can't find an upstream for > mar-tools. I guess it is Mozilla, but where is it available? > > https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/6.0.3/
Hi, I am a tor browser and torsocks user (since a few months ago). Last time I tried building tor browser from source (and failed), gitian will have to download some non-free xcode stuff to build for the os x platform. Is it possible to only build for gnu/linux without building for windows and os x? Will the resulting binary still be byte-to-byte identical with the tor project official build? Also, it seems tor browser needs virtualenv and virtualbox to build. Last time I checked virtualbox, it was on the contrib area of debian since it requires a non-free[1] compiler to build the bios[2]. I hope we can find way around these issues since tor browser is IMHO an essential tool nowadays. Finally, I agree that icecat could switch to tor browser as its upstream. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_Open_Watcom_Public_License [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
