Thanks for the feedback about the AUR helpers failing at the version upgrade. This is caused due to the split package across two pkgbase repositories - the helpers do not seem to see that the final builds provide each other with all requested versions. Likely that's an edge case no one considered when writing an AUR helper.
As a workaround, I patched the conflicts sections of all packages provided here in a way that they force an uninstall of the previous version group in order to upgrade. That's a bit sad and inefficient but looks like no AUR helper copes with the upgrade in case we don't.
In all cases, building the two pkgbase repos using makepkg -s[fC] and a manual installation of all output packages using pacman -U works. Sad no helper reaches there.
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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/flutterandaur/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/parudoes not reach at building updates for the package.On the other hand
aur/yayproperly 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 flutterto clean up the previous installation of both package bases.If you build both package bases using
makepkg -sfCand 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/flutterwill 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 asdependsto build your package.flutter-target-linux: The Flutter Linux build files. Use asdependsto build your package.flutter-target-web: The Flutter web build files. Use asdependsto build web apps (e.g.fluffychat-webdoes 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 !