[Slackbuilds-users] Features in chromium slackbuild

[David Woodfall]

On (09:21 09/12/11), Yucatan "Kenjiro" Costa <jedi.kenjiro at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
>Hello there.
>
>I forward a message I got from a fellow chrom[e|ium] user to see if more
>people would like this feature (--temp-profile) present in the script which
>launches chromium.
>
>I never used such thing, so I wasn't aware of it until today *grin*.
>
>What do you say? Should we have it?

Seems like a useful feature to have.

D.

>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: higuita
>Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM
>Subject: chromium slackbuild
>To: jedi.kenjiro at gmail.com
>
>
>Hi
>
>       Thanks for your chromium slackbuild!
>
>       One thing i'm missing is the support for the --temp-profile, to
>load chromium on a temporary profile and removed it in the end (useful
>for test webpages without any cache)
>
>       So i grabbed the debian script and tuned it for slackware...
>i'm sending it to you, to see if you want to add it to slackbuild, so
>everyone can use it. :)
>
>       Again, thanks for your script.
>
>higuita
>
>
>-- 
>May the Force be with you!
>
>Yucatan "Kenjiro" Costa

>#!/bin/sh
>
># Chromium launcher
>
># Authors:
>#  Fabien Tassin <fta at sofaraway.org>
># License: GPLv2 or later
># minor changes for slackware support by higuita at gmx.net
>
>if [ $HOSTTYPE == "x86_64" ] ; then
>	LIBDIRSUFFIX=64
>else
>	LIBDIRSUFFIX=
>fi
>
>#APPNAME=chromium
>APPNAME=chrome
>LIBDIR=/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/chromium
>EXTRALIB=
>GDB=/usr/bin/gdb
>BUILD_DIST="Slackware Slackbuild"
>
>usage () {
>  echo "$APPNAME [-h|--help] [-g|--debug] [--temp-profile] [options] [URL]"
>  echo
>  echo "        -g or --debug           Start within $GDB"
>  echo "        -h or --help            This help screen"
>  echo "        --temp-profile          Start with a new and temporary profile"
>  echo
>  echo " Other supported options are:"
>  MANWIDTH=80 man chromium | sed -e '1,/OPTIONS/d; /ENVIRONMENT/,$d'
>  echo " See 'man chromium' for more details"
>}
>
>if [ -f /etc/$APPNAME/default ] ; then
>  . /etc/$APPNAME/default
>fi
>
># Prefer user defined CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS (fron env) over system
># default CHROMIUM_FLAGS (from /etc/$APPNAME/default)
>CHROMIUM_FLAGS=${CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS:-"$CHROMIUM_FLAGS"}
>
># FFmpeg needs to know where its libs are located
>if [ "Z$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" != Z ] ; then
>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBDIR:$EXTRALIB:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>else
>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBDIR:$EXTRALIB
>fi
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
># For the Default Browser detection to work, we need to give access
># to xdg-settings. Also set CHROME_WRAPPER in case xdg-settings is
># not able to do anything useful
>export PATH="$LIBDIR:$PATH"
>export CHROME_WRAPPER="`readlink -f "$0"`"
>export CHROME_DESKTOP=$APPNAME.desktop
>
>#DIST=`lsb_release -si`
>#RELEASE=`lsb_release -sr`
>DIST=Slackware$LIBDIRSUFFIX
>RELEASE=`cat /etc/slackware-version`
>
># Set CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA visible in the About dialog and in about:version
>if [ "$DIST $RELEASE" = "$BUILD_DIST" ] ; then
>  export CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA="$DIST $RELEASE"
>else
>  export CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA="Built on $BUILD_DIST, running on $DIST $RELEASE"
>fi
>
>want_debug=0
>want_temp_profile=0
>while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
>  case "$1" in
>    -h | --help | -help )
>      usage
>      exit 0 ;;
>    -g | --debug )
>      want_debug=1
>      shift ;;
>    --temp-profile )
>      want_temp_profile=1
>      shift ;;
>    -- ) # Stop option prcessing
>      shift
>      break ;;
>    * )
>      break ;;
>  esac
>done
>
>if [ $want_temp_profile -eq 1 ] ; then
>  TEMP_PROFILE=`mktemp -d`
>  CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --user-data-dir=$TEMP_PROFILE"
>fi
>
>if [ $want_debug -eq 1 ] ; then
>  if [ ! -x $GDB ] ; then
>    echo "Sorry, can't find usable $GDB. Please install it."
>    exit 1
>  fi
>  tmpfile=`mktemp /tmp/chromiumargs.XXXXXX` || { echo "Cannot create temporary file" >&2; exit 1; }
>  trap " [ -f \"$tmpfile\" ] && /bin/rm -f -- \"$tmpfile\"" 0 1 2 3 13 15
>  echo "set args $CHROMIUM_FLAGS ${1+"$@"}" > $tmpfile
>  echo "# Env:"
>  echo "#     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>  echo "#                PATH=$PATH"
>  echo "#            GTK_PATH=$GTK_PATH"
>  echo "# CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS=$CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS"
>  echo "#      CHROMIUM_FLAGS=$CHROMIUM_FLAGS"
>  echo "$GDB $LIBDIR/$APPNAME -x $tmpfile"
>  $GDB "$LIBDIR/$APPNAME" -x $tmpfile
>  if [ $want_temp_profile -eq 1 ] ; then
>    rm -rf $TEMP_PROFILE
>  fi
>  exit $?
>else
>  if [ $want_temp_profile -eq 0 ] ; then
>    exec $LIBDIR/$APPNAME $CHROMIUM_FLAGS "$@"
>  else
>    # we can't exec here as we need to clean-up the temporary profile
>    $LIBDIR/$APPNAME $CHROMIUM_FLAGS "$@"
>    rm -rf $TEMP_PROFILE
>  fi
>fi
>

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