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 Paweł 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. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >