[Nix-dev] Chromium: Unpatched CVEs or Missing Features?

Graham Christensen graham at grahamc.com
Mon Nov 7 12:48:56 CET 2016


> It would be great to have clarity on the situation, so if anyone wants to
> test, you can grab a build on aszlig's hydra, instead of building your own,
> by `nix-install-package --non-interactive --url
> https://headcounter.org/hydra/build/1418328/nix/pkg/chromium-54.0.2840.90-x86_64-linux.nixpkg`


I built Chromium with pepper flash and with widevine enabled, and still
find myself with broken Netflix, and no WideVine or Flash reporting in
the chromium://components pages. Not sure what to make of this.

> Yeah, please merge this immediately.

I would normally agree, but shipping users updates that break one of
their most important tools seems pretty wrong to me.

Graham


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