Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

[einar.hjortdal]

Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?
There is a deb repository here and a rpm repository here
Currently I download the deb package manually, extract it and move the data directory in my ~/.local/lib64 directory and add a symlink in ~/.local/bin
I’m not sure how the entire openmamba infra works but, given there is only one maintainer and hundreds of packages, I imagine you have some script to fetch updates from existing repos and build packages from them. I am curious on how that works.

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[Silvan]

I’ve checked but the license does not allow to redistribute Microsoft Edge binaries in a public repository.
By the way it might be provided as an openmamba installable component from network, a specific mechanism which locally downloads the upstream archive and creates the RPM. However this requires some more effort than simply creating the package for the repository so I will evaluate doing this work when possible.

The process of updating packages is managed by a chain of openmamba specific tools called autospec, autodist and webbuild which are today provided in a ready-to-use docker environment with the openmamba-docker-buildvm project. This project provides a web interface and scripts that are periodically run to do batch operations like checking for packages to be updated, build them and release to a repository.

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[einar.hjortdal]

Silvan wrote:

I’ve checked but the license does not allow to redistribute Microsoft Edge binaries in a public repository.
By the way it might be provided as an openmamba installable component from network, a specific mechanism which locally downloads the upstream archive and creates the RPM. However this requires some more effort than simply creating the package for the repository so I will evaluate doing this work when possible.

I don’t think it’s worth it at that point. I could whip up a script instead

[einar.hjortdal]

Actually, isn’t redistribution of vscode also not allowed by their license?
I’ll check out how vscode’s package works

[Silvan]

By doing a quick check the license might not allow binary distribution of vscode either, although other official sources like this page seem to be permissive when citing some distributions.
While I need to do further checks when I have time I have removed the visual-studio-package from openmamba repository as a precaution.

[einar.hjortdal]

Then maybe writing a script that downlaods the binary on the user’s system is the correct thing to do for both vscode and edge

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[Silvan]

openmamba has already a project called netsrpms which provides support for local download and RPM packaging of components which cannot be distributed. Adding support for vscode and edge is now in my TODO list.

[Silvan]

Additionaly, code can be installed by following the same instructions for RPM based distributions on this page . A Microsoft dnf repository is set and will provide the updates, this is the way Skype could be used until it was dismissed.

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\nautorefresh=1\ntype=rpm-md\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo > /dev/null
sudo dnf install code

You may need to remove visual-studio-code-bin before to avoid conflicts.

Edge is currently only distributed in .deb format so the above mechanism is not applicable.

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