Re: chromium update

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:20:59 +0200
> From: Robert Bagdan <kikadf.01%gmail.com@localhost>
> 
> I pushed an update to pkgsrc-wip/chromium, with @ryoon approval. This
> is an ~up2date chromium, what I started from @ryoon’s old
> pkgsrc-wip/chromium package, based on the OpenBSD’s chromium, the
> NetBSD relevant changes from pkgsrc:qt5-qtwebengine and some own
> modifications.
> 
> Builds and  with some workarounds works for me on NetBSD-10 amd64 with
> pkgsrc -trunk. My pkgsrc tree is outdated (~2 months), I hope no
> problem with an up2date pkgsrc. In the TODO I wrote a dbus (simple),
> and a pulseaudio (ugly) workaround, with these I have no issue with
> chromium. On my NetBSD box I run it without problem,
> github/facebook/youtube and other websites work for me.

Amazing!  That's really cool.

It looks like the remaining TODO issues shouldn't be that hard to deal
with.  If you need help with the FIDO HID stuff, please feel free to
ask me.  (And if you want a FIDO key to test, I will happily get one
-- actually, two -- for you.)

> If you check this package (~1300 patch :P) keep in mind that I’m not a
> programmer, so maybe I made some wrong and ugly things in the
> codebase…

You are too hard on yourself!  Even the most experienced programmer
undertaking a task this large will make messes along the way too.