@WithTheBraid I just got to see your comment in my emails. Sorry for no response.
Apparently, the underlying issue regarding that error wasn't because of the AUR package itself but because I had arch4edu
repo added on my install. They forgot to update dependencies for flutter-target-*
at the time, causing them to fail to install.
I had that repo added for not having to spend much bandwidth for proprietary packages like google-chrome-stable
, but I found out that it's a no-go after this incident.
I absolutely refuse to use Chaotic AUR for prebuilt packages as I build linux-nitrous
from its source with USE_MPERFORMANCE=1
, which is a flag to enable mtune
flag for the detected CPU throughout the kernel. This flag isn't in use on generic repos like CAUR to make it work globally on any system the prebuilt packages are installed on which means performance drawbacks, which kinda defeats the purpose of that kernel for modern hardware.
I apologize for the confusion, just wanted to clear that up.
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WithTheBraid commented on 2024-03-28 00:44 (UTC) (edited on 2024-04-16 08:22 (UTC) by WithTheBraid)
Note to the lovers of AUR helpers : It looks like dependency resolution is a complex topic. Despite all package relations being properly declared in the Flutter packages, most AUR helpers seem to have trouble resolving the dependency chain between the package bases
aur/flutter
andaur/flutter-artifacts-google-bin
. This is not my fault and I cannot do anything about it.It looks like the initial installation works fine using
aur/paru
. Sadlyaur/paru
does not reach at building updates for the package.On the other hand
aur/yay
properly reaches at both installing and updating this package, even though it builds the package 15 times (!!!) again and again.If you use
aur/paru
, consider to simply executepacman -R flutter && pacman -Rns flutter
to clean up the previous installation of both package bases.If you build both package bases using
makepkg -sfC
and later on install all build outputs usingpacman -U
, both the installation and the updates work like a charm.I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but sadly there's nothing I can do about this.
WithTheBraid commented on 2024-03-25 20:55 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-26 15:07 (UTC) by WithTheBraid)
Huge update to the Flutter AUR package :
The previous implementation basically did a user installation of Flutter - downloaded the custom Dart SDK, CI artifacts from Chromium CI and had to be kept in user R/W access in order to have the Flutter Cache Manager working.
These times are now over - a clean and (almost) completely rewritten PKGBUILD which now uses clean dependency declarations, system Dart and Gradle and for sure no more user R/W installation directory.
This AUR entry is now a split package. Installing
aur/flutter
will still bundle the entire toolchain you knew from before. The other way round, if you don't need everything - e.g. when depending on Flutter as a build dependency in another package, you can choose to only depend on what you need.The following split packages are available :
flutter
: meta package containing all other split packagesflutter-common
: the common files for Flutter needed for all use casesflutter-devel
: your option of choice as a developer - ships the Flutter tool and all required templates to e.g. create a new projectflutter-tool
: The pure Flutter tool. Use asdepends
to build your package.flutter-target-linux
: The Flutter Linux build files. Use asdepends
to build your package.flutter-target-web
: The Flutter web build files. Use asdepends
to build web apps (e.g.fluffychat-web
does this).flutter-target-android
: The Flutter Android build files. Use if you want to develop Android apps.flutter-gradle
: The Flutter Gradle wrapper. Populated from system Gradle.flutter-intellij-patch
: a tiny patch to make the IntelliJ Flutter plugin work with the new package.flutter-material-fonts-google-bin
: Mandatory fonts package, planned to have a system-installed drop-in replacement soon.flutter-engine-common-google-bin
: Shared part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.flutter-sky-engine-google-bin
: Flutter sky engine - downloaded from Google servers.flutter-engine-linux-google-bin
: Linux part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.flutter-engine-web-google-bin
: Web part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.flutter-engine-android-google-bin
: Android part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.flutter-gradle-google-bin
: The Flutter Gradle wrapper - downloaded from Google servers.Stay tuned for non google-bin versions of the engine, they are in coming !
Since almost everything is written from scratch and heavy patches are applied to use the system packages as dependencies, there might still be bugs occurring. Please report them otherwise I can't fix them !