Google Chrome repo now available

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:42 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 12/09/2009 11:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:36 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> >> The repo is installed when installing the new, officially supported 
> >> Chrome beta from http://www.google.com/chrome/index.htm
> > 
> > Anyone know how this relates to the existing Chromium version, which
> > also has its own repo? The version numbers of the current Chromium is
> > slightly higher than Chrome's, but the Google page doesn't mention
> > Chromium and the Chromium page doesn't mention this latest release.
> > Looks like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
> 
> It gets even better.  I now have both a "google" repo and a
> "google-chrome" repo.  According to yum list all:
> 
> > google-chrome-beta.x86_64             4.0.249.30-33928            installed     
> > google-chrome-unstable.x86_64         4.0.249.30-33928            google        
> 
> huh?
> 
> so I looked at both repo files:
> 
> > # more /etc/yum.repos.d/google*.repo
> > ::::::::::::::
> > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
> > ::::::::::::::
> > [google-chrome]
> > name=google-chrome
> > baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > ::::::::::::::
> > /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo
> > ::::::::::::::
> > [google]
> > name=Google - $basearch
> > baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/$basearch
> > gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> 
> Looks like the same repo to me!

$ diff /etc/yum.repos.d/google*
1,2c1,2
< [google-chrome]
< name=google-chrome
---
> [google]
> name=Google - i386

IOW the repos are the same except for the name. Nevertheless:

$ rpm -q google-chrome-beta chromium
google-chrome-beta-4.0.249.30-33928.i386
chromium-4.0.252.0-0.1.20091119svn32498.fc12.i686

So the installed apps are actually different. The differences are
explained at
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html

poc