On 06/08/2013 03:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> Johnny, >> >> there is someone here >> >> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320 >> >> who is willing and able to help. >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >>> On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >>>> Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See below. >>>> >>>> Post from Hirakendu: >>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-discuss/I_ZFDJqdiyA >>>> >>>> ----------- >>>> "I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26 >>>> and 27) on EL 6 at >>>> >>>> https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder >>>> >>>> . See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current >>>> RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can >>>> be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this >>>> is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain >>>> it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged >>>> as well. >>>> >>>> Aside, thanks to Pawe? for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds >>>> for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years) >>>> that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the >>>> official build instructions at chromium.org." >>> I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does >>> inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to). One of our rules is an >>> SRPM for everything we release. >>> >>> The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches >>> may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds >>> and run out of support. >>> >>> Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as >>> my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this soon. > > OK guys, > > Here is the test version of Chromium version 28 for CentOS-6 (the > current beta release). > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/ > > You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then > issue the command: > > yum install chromium > > The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key. > > Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions > are located: > > https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder > > If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and > remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates. > > We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google > Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two > scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user > with sudo access to install those two libraries: > > chrome_libpdf_copy.sh: > https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_copy.sh > > chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh: > https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh > > Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS > Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes Thanks Johnny - all the instructions work as advertised - appreciated. I will use this as my browser for the next while and report any issues. Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos