Direct Fedora users to use the Flatpak instead of old RPM versions

[voltagex]

Description

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-fedora/issues suggests that this particular project is not updated

Who's implementing?

• I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-fedora/issues and https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:ungoogled_chromium suggest that the Fedora packages have not being updated

Possible solutions

Change https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md to suggest that Fedora users use the Flatpak

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

No response

[PF4Public]

to suggest that Fedora users use the Flatpak

There is already such a suggestion present:

ungoogled-chromium/README.md

Line 110 in fe59468

If your GNU/Linux distribution is not listed, there are distro-independent builds available via the following **package managers**:

[rany2]

@PF4Public I think he'd like this part of the README removed:

Fedora: Available in OBS, by following [instructions](https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-fedora) in the downloads section. Also available in [RPM Fusion](https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration) as chromium-browser-privacy (outdated).

[PF4Public]

@PF4Public I think he'd like this part of the README removed:

I personally see no reason in removing and then restoring that line later if maintenance status changes. It's just obvious that if repository has no activity, it is not maintained and therefore one is either invited to contribute or search for alternatives, like Flatpak. Removing it sounds more like bike-shedding to be honest.

Although I must admit it might be a good idea to mention the maintenance status (of all repos actually) right there to spare user wandering time.

[voltagex]

user wandering time

This is why I raised this issue - thanks for phrasing it better than I did

[wojnilowicz]

You could also direct users to COPR. I had no luck finding a maintained package there so I built one myself but others can benefit from it as well.

BTW, flatpak is not an option for me. If you're using it only for ungoogled-chromium then the package takes almost 2 GB on HDD compared to 300 MB from RPM, and uses more RAM at runtime due to libraries duplication.

[a-plastic-bag]

Is this a problem anymore? All I typed was sudo dnf install ungoogled-chromium without setting up any COPRS and I have version 123.0.6312.58 installed, which is only a week old and one version behind, and I assume it'll be updated soon for the latest version pretty soon.

[wojnilowicz]

Is this a problem anymore? All I typed was sudo dnf install ungoogled-chromium without setting up any COPRS and I have version 123.0.6312.58 installed, which is only a week old and one version behind, and I assume it'll be updated soon for the latest version pretty soon.

Interesting. Could you show us who's the vendor of your package by posting here the result of rpm -qi ungoogled-chromium | grep Vendor?

[a-plastic-bag]

Is this a problem anymore? All I typed was sudo dnf install ungoogled-chromium without setting up any COPRS and I have version 123.0.6312.58 installed, which is only a week old and one version behind, and I assume it'll be updated soon for the latest version pretty soon.

Interesting. Could you show us who's the vendor of your package by posting here the result of rpm -qi ungoogled-chromium | grep Vendor?

Sorry, I wrote that comment really late at night, so it's completely wrong lol. I actually did did add a COPR for it:
Vendor : Fedora Copr - user wojnilowicz

Here is the COPR. Seems maintained for now. Though it does say:

Please be aware that this repo might be discontinued at any time, so monitor for updated versions of this package and if they are not coming then it might be safer to switch to another source of web browser.

Depending on how long this COPR is maintained for, perhaps Fedora instructions could link to this instead?

[PF4Public]

Anyone up for a PR? :D

[Cubik65536]

Anyone up for a PR? :D

As discussed in ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-fedora#28 (sorry because I didn't notice this issue before and caused some confusions there), the plan now is that I will create a PR to add a link to the COPR, and I'm working on bring back the RPM Fusion package.