This is rather exciting. Do you think that this method can be adapted to build the pluggable transports bundles?
Yes.
I originally started working on this so I could submit a patch to include the tor-fw-helper in the TBB.
But since the helper is only needed in the PT bundles, reworking their build process seems the more productive route.
I'll see what I can do.
This is currently done semi-manually, with a makefile that builds the pluggable transports, unzips the bundle, copies in some files, and re-zips the bundle.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/Mak...
We also have instructions for setting up a build VM from scratch--which it sounds like is what Vagrant does--but I guess we would instead use whatever is the build machine for the vanilla bundle.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/Mak...
It would solve a lot of problems for us to have the PT bundles built at the same place and time as the vanilla bundles.
Arlo Breault:
This is rather exciting. Do you think that this method can be adapted to build the pluggable transports bundles?
Yes.
I originally started working on this so I could submit a patch to include the tor-fw-helper in the TBB.
But since the helper is only needed in the PT bundles, reworking their build process seems the more productive route.
I'll see what I can do.
FWIW, in the longer-term I think that the PT bundles and the normal TBB bundles should merge as soon as we have the development resources to improve Tor Launcher to support PT selection, configuration, and bridge input/discovery..
I believe all of the PT configuration should be done under the "Configure" button of Tor Launcher (or some similar UI).
I think the first steps to this are to get the same build system to churn out both sets of bundles (probably by copying each OS's gitian-bundle.yml to gitian-bundle-pt.yml and adding the PT packages in that step): https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:02:14PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote:
Arlo Breault:
This is rather exciting. Do you think that this method can be adapted to build the pluggable transports bundles?
Yes.
I originally started working on this so I could submit a patch to include the tor-fw-helper in the TBB.
But since the helper is only needed in the PT bundles, reworking their build process seems the more productive route.
I'll see what I can do.
FWIW, in the longer-term I think that the PT bundles and the normal TBB bundles should merge as soon as we have the development resources to improve Tor Launcher to support PT selection, configuration, and bridge input/discovery..
I believe all of the PT configuration should be done under the "Configure" button of Tor Launcher (or some similar UI).
I agree with that. I posited something similar as a long-term goal; replace "Vidalia" with "Tor Launcher": https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8019#comment:3
I think the first steps to this are to get the same build system to churn out both sets of bundles (probably by copying each OS's gitian-bundle.yml to gitian-bundle-pt.yml and adding the PT packages in that step): https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
That looks pretty cool. If I find time I'll try one of these reproducible builds.
David Fifield
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