Re: chromium: pkgsrc import request

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 11:08, Robert Bagdan <kikadf.01%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I made a pkg for chromium to NetBSD, which has been available in
> pkgsrc-wip for months. I followed the releases, the current version of
> wip/chromium is 131.0.6778.204. Chromium-132 switched to llvm-19,
> which is only available in pkgsrc-wip yet, this version is available
> in pkgsrc-wip as chromium-next. When llvm-19 lands in pkgsrc I will
> merge them.
>
> I use chromium on NetBSD-10.1 x86_64 and I think the package is stable
> enough. The pkg is based on the common OpenBSD and FreeBSD patchset,
> extending the NetBSD relevant changes, which work from NetBSD-10.
> Chromium officially dropped support for x86 from linux, and I had many
> problems when I tried to build on i386, furthermore the patchset
> contains changes for aarch64, but I don't have hardware to try this.
> So wip/chromium’s supported platforms are at best NetBSD, FreeBSD,
> Darwin and Linux on x86_64 and aarch64.
>
> I would like to start the requesting process to import chromium to the
> pkgsrc. Is it acceptable chromium support NetBSD only from 10 of
> release?

For a package as useful as chromium I would normally encourage trying
to make it available all officially supported NetBSD versions, but at
this point NetBSD-9 is old enough that we are encountering significant
problems in building some packages for it, so I would personally be
happy to see chromium as NetBSD-10 and later only.

Any potential additional time would probably be best spent on
stability and additional platform support than supporting NetBSD-9 -
but as I'm not the one looking to supply that time, that would not be
my call :)

In case I didn't mention it enough before - excellent work on the package

David