tor-browser-build/tools/update-responses

Tor Browser Update Responses script

This repository contains a script to generate responses for Tor Browser updater.

See ticket #12622 for details.

Dependencies

The following perl modules need to be installed to run the script: FindBin YAML File::Slurp Digest::SHA XML::Writer File::Temp IO::CaptureOutput Parallel::ForkManager XML::LibXML LWP JSON

On Debian / Ubuntu you can install them with:

  # apt-get install libfindbin-libs-perl libyaml-perl libfile-slurp-perl \
                    libdigest-sha-perl libxml-writer-perl \
                    libio-captureoutput-perl libparallel-forkmanager-perl \
                    libxml-libxml-perl libwww-perl libjson-perl

On Red Hat / Fedora you can install them with:

  # for module in FindBin YAML File::Slurp Digest::SHA XML::Writer \
                  File::Temp IO::CaptureOutput Parallel::ForkManager \
                  XML::LibXML LWP JSON
    do yum install "perl($module)"; done

URL Format

The URL format is: https://something/$channel/$build_target/$tb_version/$lang?force=1

'build_target' is the OS for which the browser was built. The correspo ndance between the build target and the OS name that we use in archive files is defined in the config.yml file.

'tb_version' is the Tor Browser version.

'lang' is the locale.