Chromium 130 and 131 Linux tarballs.

Matt Jolly <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:20:25 +1000
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.distributions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

The upstream Chromium project are currently having some issues with
their CI resulting in tarballs for the Stable and Beta channels running
quite late[1].

As the risks associated with having web-browsers with known Critical
CVEs deployed to users being too high for my comfort I've elected
to begin publishing tarballs for these releases until the CI catches up.

These can be found in the following S3 bucket. I'm supplying the hosting
for this; please be conscious of the bandwidth usage (i.e. please mirror
if you're serving to users). The Gentoo CDN may be faster for users
outside the region, please don't abuse it.

* https://chromium-tarballs.syd1.digitaloceanspaces.com/
* https://chromium-tarballs.distfiles.gentoo.org/

I will continue publishing tarballs until upstream's CI has caught up,
and I'll put some work into automating the process so that they're a
bit more timely.

The Dev channel seems to have been fixed however that
was after this week's release. If it's still not publishing next week 
I'll put up a tarball for 132.

If you'd prefer to make your own tarballs the process is relatively
straightforward. I've done up some brief documentation on the Gentoo
Wiki[2].

Have a great weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

1: 
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-packagers/c/wjv9UKg2u4w
2: 
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Chromium/How_to_make_a_Chromium_tarball