Testing www/chromium before installing

[bob prohaska]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 06:11:06PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
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> On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:50:07 -0800
> bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Michel,
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:01:16PM +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > > What about ???make stage????
> > >   
> > Never heard of it, and can't find any obvious references.
> > Is there a description somewhere?
> 
> It's one of the seven main targets of building a port:
> 
> - extract
> - patch
> - configure
> - build
> - stage
> - install
> - package
> 
> It installs the port into STAGEDIR (by default work/stage). Install and
> package copy files from STAGEDIR, so usually stage is run implicitly.
> See /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for details (documentation isn't great,
> most of it is from when the big conversion to STAGEDIR happened a
> couple of years ago).
> 
> To give you a simple port as an example
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/editors/joe
> # make stage
> ...
> # find work/stage -type f -perm +111
> work/stage/usr/local/bin/joe
> 
> Same should work with chromium (you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> in case chromium comes with its own libraries).
> 

Thank you! Found the executable, and it suffers from the same problem
as the old version: The controls drop-down menu (right of the URL bar)
is non-persistent and can't be used. The new version does seem to run
faster, which is a step forward.

It's surprising that a simple
find . -name stage 
didn't discover the directory, but did discover those for node, 
in the same subtree.  The exact syntax you provided seems to be 
required.

> Oh, alternatively you could of course simply make a backup of your
> current chromium package:
> 
>   pkg create chromium
> 
> Which you then can re-install in case the new version doesn't work as
> expected: pkg add chromium-someversion.txz
>
 
The sources for the existing version of chromium are long overwritten,
can a package be constructed from installed files?  

bob prohaska


> Best,
> Michael
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for writing!
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> > 
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> > > > On 13. Mar 2021, at 16:49, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > ???After a _very_ long time www/chromium finished compiling on a
> > > > Pi3B+. I'd like to test it before installing, since I have a
> > > > (mostly) working version in /usr/local/bin and don't want to
> > > > overwrite it until I know the new version works at least as
> > > > well as the old one. 
> > > > 
> > > > Poking around in the source tree didn't disclose any obvious 
> > > > executable, could somebody offer a hint at test methods, if any?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for reading,
> > > > 
> > > > bob prohaska
> > > > 
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> -- 
> Michael Gmelin