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Now that AUR package chromium-snapshot-bin provides/conflicts with chromium-snapshot, should the binary name, icons, and launcher be renamed from chromium-snapshot-bin to chromium-snapshot?

If so, chromedriver-snapshot-bin should probably renamed, too.

Thanks for all of your work maintaining the chromium-snapshot-bin AUR package!

Thanks everybody, included chromedriver and updated the 'provides' flag.

Here is a patch for the current PKGBUILD to include chromedriver as chromedriver-snapshot-bin: ...

:: chromium-snapshot-bin-130.0.6705.0.r1352472-1 and ungoogled-chromium-bin-128.0.6613.119-1 are in conflict (chromium). Remove ungoogled-chromium-bin? [y/N]

So:

-provides=('chromium')
+provides=('chromium-snapshot')

Nevertheless, thanks for that!

Please consider including chromedriver in the chromium-snapshot-bin AUR package, because the chromium package also includes chromedriver.

Here is a patch for the current PKGBUILD to include chromedriver as chromedriver-snapshot-bin:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index f535244..a6096db 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Contributors: Det, Ner0, alexwizard, thotypous, jdhore, xduugu, randypenguin, bdheeman, AlK

 pkgname=chromium-snapshot-bin
+_pkgname=${pkgname/chromium/chromedriver}
 pkgver=130.0.6681.0.r1346976
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The open-source project behind Google Chrome (Latest Snapshot)"
@@ -18,11 +19,13 @@ provides=('chromium')
 install=$pkgname.install
 _build=$(curl -s "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64/LAST_CHANGE")
 source=("chrome-linux-r$_build.zip::https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64/$_build/chrome-linux.zip"
+"chromedriver_linux64-r$_build.zip::https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Linux_x64/$_build/chromedriver_linux64.zip"
         "$pkgname.sh"
         "$pkgname.desktop"
         "$pkgname"_{16,22,24,32,48,64,128,256}.png
         'LICENSE')
 sha1sums=('SKIP'
+          'SKIP'
           '12c3b365d3765ab8d049b517c3f598563ef0c45b'
           'e64637c07b921f197fc1d7fd031c8a73ea3a55f8'
           '1cbdde48d193a648723f948370eff9b7b2fbf3f9'
@@ -48,17 +51,20 @@ package() {
   install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/man/man1/

   msg2 "Making it nice..."
+  sed 's/chrome/chromedriver/g' $pkgname.sh > ${_pkgname}.sh
   # Permissions
   find -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ';'
   find -type f -exec chmod +r {} ';'
   cd chrome-linux
   chmod 755 chrome chrome-wrapper xdg-*
   chmod 4755 chrome_sandbox
+  mv ../chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver .
   cd ..

   msg2 "Moving contents..."
   # Main script
   install -m755 $pkgname.sh "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$pkgname
+  install -m755 ${_pkgname}.sh "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/${_pkgname}

   # Rename chrome-sandbox
   mv chrome-linux/chrome{_,-}sandbox

Thank you for maintaining the chromium-snapshot-bin AUR package. :)

Cant install: ==> ERROR: Cannot find the debugedit binary required for including source files in debug packages.

Doesn't build anymore:

Building chromium-snapshot-bin...
==> Making package: chromium-snapshot-bin 121.0.6149.0.r1228979-1 (Sat 25 Nov 2023 04:50:27 PM)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found chrome-linux-r1228979.zip
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin.sh
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin.desktop
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_16.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_22.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_24.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_32.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_48.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_64.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_128.png
  -> Found chromium-snapshot-bin_256.png
  -> Found LICENSE
==> Validating source files with sha1sums...
    chrome-linux-r1228979.zip ... Skipped
    chromium-snapshot-bin.sh ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin.desktop ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_16.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_22.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_24.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_32.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_48.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_64.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_128.png ... Passed
    chromium-snapshot-bin_256.png ... Passed
    LICENSE ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting chrome-linux-r1228979.zip with bsdtar
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
  -> Creating directory structure...
  -> Making it nice...
chmod: cannot access 'nacl_*': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

chromium-snapshot-bin should include the contents of chromedriver_linux64.zip, IMO, because

• The chromium extra package includes chromedriver

• the chromedriver AUR package rightly conflicts with chromium

• chromium-snapshot-bin provides chromium

chromedriver_linux64.zip only includes the chromedriver binary and a license

Looks like this chromium version also does not like --force-device-scale-factor. If set to values greater than 1, maximizing chromium leads to an overscan so that the window borders are outside the visible screen area.

If resized to fit the screen, the window controls at the right (such as minimize, restore, maximize, close) are not working. If you click on these, it is recognized as a click on the desktop background.

Workaround: Do not use --force-device-scale-factor.

By the way,this chromium version does not play ANY video, neither on YouTube nor Facebook, nor other pages. If you open any YouTube page, it does not even get displayed in chrome://media-internals at all so I assume that this behavior is intended. Debug information from YouTube:

{
  "ns": "yt",
  "el": "detailpage",
  "cpn": "e5K7YIOzxQLuTMf4",
  "docid": "8sChEPcm0zM",
  "ver": 2,
  "referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers",
  "cmt": "0",
  "ei": "JZVRYdSWGsLdgAf1xan4Aw",
  "fs": "0",
  "rt": "35551.278",
  "of": "pZTO9c9_sFOHP0HjjgMIeg",
  "euri": "",
  "lact": 6,
  "cl": "398834183",
  "mos": 0,
  "state": "80",
  "vm": "CAEQARgEOjJBS1JhaHdDVElPc3ZuWmN5T0tLano1MWFvSXlRdjVlRmFjX3pfNnhYajZ6ZW9NSkg0UWJQQVBta0tETHRnTXRNMHcxVHhDYjlpdkVZeFh6Tzc2TFZFZXZjVWdHYXV6THdBU0RIYV9VLU5tTDNJRHhCQlhaQk5wSFQxcDZuYXJKdUFOZlc",
  "volume": 100,
  "cbr": "Chrome",
  "cbrver": "96.0.4643.0",
  "c": "WEB",
  "cver": "2.20210924.00.00",
  "cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",
  "cos": "X11",
  "cplatform": "DESKTOP",
  "hl": "de_DE",
  "cr": "DE",
  "len": "523",
  "fexp": "23748146,23858058,23958718,23983296,23986025,24001373,24002022,24002025,24002923,24004644,24007246,24045469,24045470,24064555,24069678,24080738,24082661,24083162,24083163,24083188,24083189,24094715,24101842,24106549",
  "muted": "0",
  "vct": "0.000",
  "vd": "NaN",
  "vpl": "",
  "vbu": "",
  "vpa": "1",
  "vsk": "0",
  "ven": "0",
  "vpr": "1",
  "vrs": "0",
  "vns": "0",
  "vec": "null",
  "vemsg": "",
  "vvol": "1",
  "vdom": "1",
  "vsrc": "0",
  "vw": "1280",
  "vh": "720",
  "debug_error": "{\"errorCode\":\"html5.missingapi\",\"errorMessage\":\"Dieses Videoformat wird nicht unterstützt.\",\"GC\":\"HTML5_NO_AVAILABLE_FORMATS_FALLBACK\",\"ai\":\"\",\"OE\":\"nocodecs.1;a6s.0\"}",
  "ismb": 10650000,
  "relative_loudness": "-1.260",
  "user_qual": 0,
  "release_version": "youtube.player.web_20210922_1_RC1",
  "debug_videoId": "8sChEPcm0zM",
  "0sz": "false",
  "op": "",
  "yof": "true",
  "dis": "",
  "gpu": "ANGLE_(NVIDIA_Corporation,_GeForce_GTX_550_Ti/PCIe/SSE2,_OpenGL_4.5.0_NVIDIA_390.144)",
  "debug_playbackQuality": "unknown",
  "debug_date": "Tue Sep 28 2021 09:32:58 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit)"
}

@intrnl: Meanwhile, I have switched to pipewire. However, to get audio in chromium working, it might be necessary to start the browser with --disable-features=AudioServiceSandbox

See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1018580#c71 for additional details.