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TL;DR

Upgrade using aur/yay might take very long and works inefficiently.

Upgrade using aur/paru requires the -d flag.

This is not my fault.

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 and aur/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. Sadly aur/paru does not reach at building updates for the package without additional flags. Please use paru -Syud (whereas the -d is the relevant flag) to upgrade 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 execute pacman -R flutter && pacman -Rns flutter to clean up the previous installation of both package bases.

• https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2413
• https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1173

If you build both package bases using makepkg -sfC and later on install all build outputs using pacman -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.

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 packages

• flutter-common : the common files for Flutter needed for all use cases

• flutter-devel : your option of choice as a developer - ships the Flutter tool and all required templates to e.g. create a new project

• flutter-tool : The pure Flutter tool. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-linux : The Flutter Linux build files. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-web : The Flutter web build files. Use as depends 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.

• flutter-dart-google-bin : The Flutter original Dart SDK - downloaded from Google servers. This is helpful if the extra/dart package is not available in the right version on your distro or remix.

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 !

FWIW, it looks like v3.14.4 is available now.

But also, it does look like Google had two versions with the same v3.13.3 number: https://docs.flutter.dev/release/archive?tab=linux

...one on that page with ref == 'b0daa73', the other ref == '2524052'.

That incoherence from upstream is probably what broke the sha256sum in the PKGBUILD for v3.13.3.

Yeah, there was a breakdown in the flutter release infrastructure, that lead to the wrong commit being re-published as 3.13.3. It's unclear whether or not this will be fixed (as it would be risky to fix), so I would recommend unblocking this package by re-publishing for the 3.13.4 release.

FWIW, it looks like v3.14.4 is available now.

But also, it does look like Google had two versions with the same v3.13.3 number: https://docs.flutter.dev/release/archive?tab=linux

...one on that page with ref == 'b0daa73', the other ref == '2524052'.

That incoherence from upstream is probably what broke the sha256sum in the PKGBUILD for v3.13.3.

Yeah, there was a breakdown in the flutter release infrastructure, that lead to the wrong commit being re-published as 3.13.3. It's unclear whether or not this will be fixed (as it would be risky to fix), so I would recommend unblocking this package by re-publishing for the 3.13.4 release.

FWIW, it looks like v3.14.4 is available now.

But also, it does look like Google had two versions with the same v3.13.3 number: https://docs.flutter.dev/release/archive?tab=linux

...one on that page with ref == 'b0daa73', the other ref == '2524052'.

That incoherence from upstream is probably what broke the sha256sum in the PKGBUILD for v3.13.3.

FWIW, it looks like v3.14.4 is available now: https://docs.flutter.dev/release/archive?tab=linux

But yeah, I'm seeing a conflicting sha256sum for v3.13.3 as well:

$ shasum -a 256 flutter-3.13.3.tar.xz 
4fc057286135d4b7559db7d735a235753e273f284219b2e9d2f77aa455dd923e  flutter-3.13.3.tar.xz

Not equal to c53c8aeff17d13c4c0b47bff2c54a293e48286e03dd089f37d561737e41a8c2c from the PKGBUILD.

The sha256sum is wrong for v3.13.3. Seems like Google silently uploaded a new version?

After deleting the .pub-cache folder from my home it worked too. Thanks!

1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
PKGBUILD | 18 +++++++++++++++++-

modified   PKGBUILD
@@ -14,8 +14,24 @@ makedepends=("python")
 backup=("opt/${pkgname}/packages/${pkgname}_test/pubspec.yaml" "opt/${pkgname}/packages/${pkgname}/pubspec.yaml")
 options=("!emptydirs")
 install="${pkgname}.install"
+# Use bash Parameter Expansion so that the more than 2 billion people
+# (almost 30% of the population) that are currently under illegal
+# unilateral sanctions by the west (collectively makes up about 10% of
+# the population) can download and use flutter.
+
+# For those that live in China, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, North
+# Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Belarus,
+# Palestine, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Libya, Zimbabwe (this list gets
+# bigger every year) you are not allowed to access
+# storage.googleapis.com and therefore will need to export these two
+# shell variables in your ~/.bashrc:
+
+# export FLUTTER_STORAGE_BASE_URL=https://storage.flutter-io.cn export
+# export PUB_HOSTED_UTL=https://pub.flutter-io.cn
+
+# Thank you to China for not being fascist psychopaths.
 source=(
-  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz::https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra_release/releases/stable/linux/${pkgname}_linux_${pkgver/.hotfix/+hotfix}-stable.tar.xz"
+  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz::${FLUTTER_STORAGE_BASE_URL:-https://storage.googleapis.com}/flutter_infra_release/releases/stable/linux/${pkgname}_linux_${pkgver/.hotfix/+hotfix}-stable.tar.xz"
   "${pkgname}.sh"
   "${pkgname}.csh"
 )

I have added flutter to my unofficial repository, due to it being a dependency of a package I maintain saber.

Feel free to pull it from my repository, check out PolarRepo

When I try to install it using yay I get the following error:

Got dependencies.
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/build_result.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/serializers.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/debug_event.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/extension_request.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/serializer.dart:6:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/src/internal/hash.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/src/internal/hash.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/big_int_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/date_time_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/duration_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/int64_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().
    Cancelando...
 -> error compilando: flutter-exit status 4
 -> Ha fallado al instalar los siguientes paquetes. Una intervención manual es requerida:
flutter - exit status 4

After deleting the .pub-cache folder from my home it worked.

Following the suggestion by jpike, I had to run the following command after installation to avoid the "The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project" error.

mv "/opt/flutter/.git-refs" "/opt/flutter/.git"