[tor-talk] Tor Browser repository for Fedora 17 and 18

Jamie Nguyen j at jamielinux.com
Sat Jan 19 20:21:14 UTC 2013


adrelanos:
> Jamie Nguyen:
>> Hi, I'm the maintainer for Tor package on Fedora EPEL.
>>
>> I've set-up a (GPG signed) repository for Fedora 17 and 18 with Tor
>> Browser RPM packages. It optionally includes SELinux protection for the
>> Tor Browser. (Tor client/server already has SELinux protection on Fedora.)
>>
>> More info here:
>> https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/tor-and-tor-browser-repository-on-fedora/
>>
>>
> 
> Nice!
> 
> How could you create it?
> 
> Please share you knowledge if that could ease the process of creating .debs.


Sure. The scripts I use to make the SRPM are available on Gitorious [1].

Essentially it's taking the Firefox SRPM from Red Hat, applying the
patches from Tor Browser, and doing some "other stuff". This "other
stuff" is documented in the CHANGELOG [2].

The SRPM itself is not included in the repository (as you can just
generate it from the scripts), but I've just made it available here [3].

(I then use the SRPM to build the RPM packages in mock. I think
debootstrap is the rough Debian equivalent to mock.)

Hope that helps.


[1] https://gitorious.org/build-tor-browser/build-tor-browser
[2]
https://gitorious.org/build-tor-browser/build-tor-browser/blobs/master/CHANGELOG
[3]
http://jamielinux.fedorapeople.org/tor-browser/tor-browser-10.0.12-1.fc18.src.rpm




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