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@cmm11 I added this file /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget.service with the intention of reducing the running permissions for users who use flexget-webui. Users using the webui can directly run command within the webui. If you have to run these commands from the command line, traditional su cannot do it because the shell of the flexget user is /usr/bin/nologin and login is prohibited.

• You can run sudo -u flexget flexget -c /var/lib/flexget/config.yml execute --task task_name

• Or You can use the gosu that I just packaged to implement: sudo gosu <user>:<group> <command>, for example: sudo gosu flexget:flexget flexget -c /var/lib/flexget/config.yml execute --task task_name.

If you are using /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget.service, you can add a alias in your shell rc file: alias flexget="sudo -u flexget /usr/bin/flexget -c /var/lib/flexget/config.yml or alias flexget="sudo gosu flexget:flexget /usr/bin/flexget -c /var/lib/flexget/config.yml".

After taking over Flexget, I had

• Added flexget-webui and flexget-webui-v1 in optdepends, you can install and enable webui if you need. When using webui, it is recommended to use /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget.service I have newly added.
• Fixed dependency packages.
• Added /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget.service to run as a system user, the original methods that run as normal user still exists: /usr/lib/systemd/system/flexget@.service and /usr/lib/systemd/user/flexget.service.
• Removed check function in PKGBUILD due to the official testing of flexget before release.

If upgrade fail, you should remove old flexget first, and reinstall.

I had to add install python-brotli 1.0.9-4 to successfully run flexget --version. I don't know what version it should be or if its required by this package or one of it's dependencies.

What is the point of including the flexget@.service file, if you are not installing it in the PKGBUILD?

@je-vv: thanks, merged. I kept the min version specs for now, though, they don't hurt.

This patch might be of interest:

diff -Naur flexget.orig/PKGBUILD flexget/PKGBUILD
--- flexget.orig/PKGBUILD       2018-11-03 22:59:17.800654614 -0600
+++ flexget/PKGBUILD    2018-11-03 23:04:58.118357988 -0600
@@ -17,35 +17,35 @@

 depends=('python'
          # documented in requirements.in
-         'python-feedparser>=5.2.1'
-         'python-sqlalchemy>=1.0.9'
+         'python-feedparser'
+         'python-sqlalchemy'
          'python-yaml'
-         'python-beautifulsoup4>=4.5'
-         'python-html5lib>=0.11'
+         'python-beautifulsoup4'
+         'python-html5lib'
          'python-pyrss2gen'
          'python-pynzb'
          'python-rpyc'
          'python-jinja'
-         'python-requests>=2.16.3'
-         'python-dateutil>=2.5.3'
-         'python-jsonschema>=2.0'
-         'python-path>=8.1.1'
-         'python-pathlib>=1.0'
-         #'python-guessit' # feature disabled until upstream updates to latest API
+         'python-requests'
+         'python-dateutil'
+         'python-jsonschema'
+         'python-path.py'
+         # 'python-pathlib'
+         'python-guessit'
          'python-rebulk'
-         'python-apscheduler>=3.2.0'
-         'python-terminaltables>=3.1.0'
-         'python-colorclass>=2.2.0'
-         'python-cherrypy>=3.7.0'
-         'python-flask>=0.7'
-         'python-flask-restful>=0.3.3'
+         'python-apscheduler'
+         'python-terminaltables'
+         'python-colorclass'
+         'python-cherrypy'
+         'python-flask'
+         'python-flask-restful'
          'python-flask-restplus'
-         'python-flask-compress>=1.2.1'
-         'python-flask-login>=0.4.0'
-         'python-flask-cors>=2.1.2'
-         'python-pyparsing>=2.0.3'
+         'python-flask-compress'
+         'python-flask-login'
+         'python-flask-cors'
+         'python-pyparsing'
          'python-zxcvbn'
-         'python-future>=0.15.2'
+         'python-future'
          )
 optdepends=('python-guppy: for memusage plugin' #AUR#
             'python-transmissionrpc: Transmission support' #AUR#
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 prepare() {
   cd "${_pkgname}"-"${pkgver}"

-  #msg "Patching shebangs to point to python2"
+  #msg "Patching shebangs to point to python"
   sed -i '1s/python2/python/' flexget{,/ui}/__init__.py

   # Don't use the requirements.txt with pinned deps
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
   # zxcvbn-python has been renamed zxcvbn
   sed -i 's/zxcvbn-python/zxcvbn/' requirements.txt

+  # pathlib no longer required since python 3.4
+  sed -i 's/pathlib.*//' requirements.txt
+
   # disable this parser because python-guessit API changed and upstream
   # needs to be patched to support it.
   rm flexget/plugins/parsers/parser_guessit.py

Please, change dependency from python-path, to python-path.py, which is the same but available from official repos. Please also remove dependency upon python-pathlib, that's not required at all on python 3. Some tweaks to requirements.txt might be required

After another round of issues due to updates and broken functionality, I uninstalled flexget and all of its depends using pacman. I kept setuptools installed, and installed python2-virutalenv and python2-pip. I followed the instructions on the flexget page for setting up a virtualenv for ONLY flexget using python2 (python3 seems to have issues at this time). This seems to be working well and running OK. This process creates a build of flexget and its depends (independent of Arch) in a local folder somewhere, so it can be executed but will never interfere with Arch packages. I don't ever plan on updating the virtualenv or the packages/depends installed inside of that folder. Hopefully I can now use flexget in peace, without it breaking in an attempt to give me feature updates I don't need and won't use.

@cgirard - thank you, that fixed it!

file path if anyone else needs it:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FlexGet-2.10.48-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt

@highway: it is because zxcvbn-python is now zxcvbn. The python require file should be updated.

I seem to have an issue with the latest update of python2-zxcvbn breaking functionality. The error I receive is: "pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'zxcvbn-python' distribution was not found and is required by FlexGet"

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I meant the same as highway*