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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48a88a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# README for librewolf-fedora-ff + +## Overview +After using the [prep-librewolf-rpm.sh](https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/librewolf-fedora) script, a modified copy of Fedora Firefox src.rpm git repo exists on the local filesystem. + +If this README.md exists in a directory named `for-repo`, then it is still in its source location from the above link, and not in its final location. + +## This repository +This README file belongs in the modified copy of that Fedora Firefox src.rpm [git repository](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox). That modified git repo can be sent up to a [new web location](https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/librewolf-fedora-ff). + +Fedora [COPR](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bgstack15/AfterMozilla/packages/) can then use rpkg to pull this new git repository, so users do not have to upload the 400MB src.rpm manually. + +## Using this repository +Script `git-helper.sh` included in the [librewolf-fedora](https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/librewolf-fedora) repository will add the new git repo for librewolf-fedora-ff and fix the .gitignore. + +## Differences from upstream repo +The Librewolf rpm git repo makes some changes to the Firefox rpm git repo. +Files are added or modified: +* this README.md +* .gitignore +* librewolf.spec +* LibreWolf patches that are not named here +* a few tarballs omitted from upstream git sources: + * cbindgen-vendor.tar.xz + * `firefox-langpacks-*.tar.xz` + +Files that are removed: +* sources + +Fedora's dist-git project provides a lookaside cache for large assets so they do not have to be stored in source control. The `sources` file links to those files, but we embed in the librewolf src.rpm the two tarballs we need. |