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Not sure what to say. Here's my ~/.config/brave-nightly-flags.conf:

--disable-gpu-vsync --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy

And here's what I get when I run brave-nightly script:

exec /opt/brave.com/brave-nightly/brave-browser --disable-gpu-vsync --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

@gregbunk unfortunately I tried many formats but they did not work no matter how I formatted them. only a single flag works even when they are space separated.

Thanks for the reply I'm putting each flag on a single line maybe that's why.

Thanks for your work on this, @heelowoorl. I think this works as-is, with the flags on a single line. For example, my flags are:

--disable-gpu-vsync --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy

And when I run this command:

brave-nightly foo

It expands to:

exec /opt/brave.com/brave-nightly/brave-browser --disable-gpu-vsync --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds foo

Is that not what we want?

@gregbunk I noticed that the script brave-nightly-bin.sh only loads the flags if it is 1 flag and only 1 flag from ~/.config/brave-nightly-flags.conf otherwise it will just not load any.

I tried to debug the issue and I got it fixed by looking at the brave-bin package here on aur and moving the flag argument placement like so

exec "/opt/brave.com/brave-nightly/brave-browser" "$@" $USER_FLAGS $BRAVE_FLAGS $FLAG

To test the issue you can use these two below flags if you put them inside ~/.config/brave-nightly-flags.conf and observe that they don't apply. but if you only put --incognito it will work and by the change above both worked flawlessly

--incognito
--start-maximized

Thanks. I'm using the github API to pull the actual builds as they occur.

hey @gregbunk. please take a look at https://versions.brave.com/ - it's an overview of Brave versions, including links to individual endpoints returning a version for a given platform/architecture, that can be used in automation - e.g. https://versions.brave.com/latest/nightly-linux-x64.version and https://versions.brave.com/latest/nightly-linux-arm64.version.

I have added experimental aarch64 support. I have no way to test this, so I'm flying blind. If someone can try and let me know that would be great.

Please note that aarch64 Brave builds are VERY spotty right now. They seem to not be available a lot of the time.

You can use something like this to incorporate aarch64:

_arch=`uname -m|sed s/x86_/amd/\;s/arch/rm/`
_pkgver=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/brave/brave-browser/releases|grep browser_download_url|grep nightly-.*-linux-$_arch|head -1|cut -d- -f5`
_link=https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v$_pkgver/brave-browser-nightly-$_pkgver-linux-$_arch.zip
sha256sums=(`curl -Ls $_link.sha256|cut -b-64`)
pkgver(){
    echo $_pkgver
}

Was able to get this working on Asahi linux. Not sure if this warrants a separate package or not. Would be great if support for arm linux could be included here.

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 9901a91..6ae67c3 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 pkgbase = brave-nightly-bin
    pkgdesc = Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (nightly binary release).
-   pkgver = 1.48.101
+   pkgver = 1.48.98
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://brave.com/download-nightly
-   arch = x86_64
+   arch = aarch64
    license = MPL2
    depends = gtk3
    depends = nss
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ pkgbase = brave-nightly-bin
    provides = brave-nightly-bin
    provides = brave-nightly-browser
    options = !strip
-   source = https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.48.101/brave-browser-nightly_1.48.101_amd64.deb
+   source = https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.48.94/brave-browser-nightly_1.48.94_arm64.deb
    source = MPL2::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brave/browser-laptop/master/LICENSE.txt
    source = brave-nightly-bin.sh
-   sha512sums = 0c137a32180bfc844383d7c88fb8ffb9ada4b65ec4a48b3836470cc4e024b58a584178b25a5022e26eea87bec8c0fcc1fb41e6632fb29beb551a99c02867de38
+    sha512sums = 16ac61cb049a5f554e2508ac020914068fd3809f1dee6560c84dbc4a2c37b10d7ba1bb711b43c314124ad4c27c3f76e134e34c4c7a4ff4ef954b61a09d95a87a
    sha512sums = b8823586fead21247c8208bd842fb5cd32d4cb3ca2a02339ce2baf2c9cb938dfcb8eb7b24c95225ae625cd0ee59fbbd8293393f3ed1a4b45d13ba3f9f62a791f
    sha512sums = 191500db5dd9692d362745e0055f9ac570c7ca2043edcf3e2eb9dcf8039615022f3459c909ed29d89410886481723d2d439086f1938249674ea32654819190c4

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index a98738e..33e3c1b 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 # Maintainer: Greg White <gwhite@kupulau.com>

 pkgname=brave-nightly-bin
-pkgver=1.48.101
+pkgver=1.48.94
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (nightly binary release).'
-arch=('x86_64')
+arch=('aarch64')
 url='https://brave.com/download-nightly'
 license=('MPL2')
 depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libxss' 'ttf-font')
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ optdepends=('cups: Printer support'
             'libgnome-keyring: gnome keyring support')
 provides=("${pkgname}" 'brave-nightly-browser')
 conflicts=()
-source=("https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${pkgver}/brave-browser-nightly_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
+source=("https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${pkgver}/brave-browser-nightly_${pkgver}_arm64.deb"
         'MPL2::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brave/browser-laptop/master/LICENSE.txt'
         "$pkgname.sh")
 options=(!strip)
-sha512sums=('0c137a32180bfc844383d7c88fb8ffb9ada4b65ec4a48b3836470cc4e024b58a584178b25a5022e26eea87bec8c0fcc1fb41e6632fb29beb551a99c02867de38'
+sha512sums=('16ac61cb049a5f554e2508ac020914068fd3809f1dee6560c84dbc4a2c37b10d7ba1bb711b43c314124ad4c27c3f76e134e34c4c7a4ff4ef954b61a09d95a87a'
             'b8823586fead21247c8208bd842fb5cd32d4cb3ca2a02339ce2baf2c9cb938dfcb8eb7b24c95225ae625cd0ee59fbbd8293393f3ed1a4b45d13ba3f9f62a791f'
             '191500db5dd9692d362745e0055f9ac570c7ca2043edcf3e2eb9dcf8039615022f3459c909ed29d89410886481723d2d439086f1938249674ea32654819190c4')