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I did a split of the package to 3 packages: google-cloud-cli, google-cloud-cli-bq, google-cloud-cli-gsutil. There is also package containing the bundled python for those who want it or as a dependency to the gsutil (current version 5.24 does not work with python 3.13 out-of-the-box, although 5.25 which is already available on github should). I am also testing to include other "components".

If there will be interest, it's also possible to split the manpages to another package. So for those who don't want them, the install time can get faster and size significantly smaller.

I have tried not to break anyones installation, so please try to install the 3 mentioned packages and it should work the same as before.

You don't need bundled python for the gcloud to work, and I would advice to use gsutil only if yo really have to. The prefered way is to use gcloud storage anyway.

@ThinkRedstone the package is in the phase of restructuring. Previous maintainer decided to remove symlink from /usr/bin in favor of profile file in /etc/profile.d.

You need to source /etc/profile.d/google-cloud-cli.sh in your .bashrc or other appropriate place to update your PATH.

After my PCA exam, I would like to redo this package little bit to make it more like the .deb variant, or even (not decided yet) use the .deb as source (it already has manpages compressed). Also I plan to add components as available packages.

gcloud is not within the path (installed to /opt/google-cloud-cli/bin), and the pinned comment directs to a broken link.

@sharun this is because gzip is a single thread process, and there is a ton of man pages which are being compressed, thus it can take a good 30 minutes to compress.

If you want to increase the speed of the compression, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepkg#Utilizing_multiple_cores_on_compression

Take care,
Polarian

anyone else have their install stuck on Compressing man and info pages ?

@mjboa that is what I would prefer too, I just merged a patch which changed the functionality along with the cleanup of the PKGBUILD.

Seen as there is support for a wrapper script, I will add it in a few days, if anyone objects let me know.

Take care,
Polarian

+1 on wrapper script, it's now impossible to use the package out of the box, also because of the auth plugin, with fish.

Following on from what @jvybihal says.

The compression isn't handled by the PKGBUILD but instead by the makepkg.conf. pigz is not the default command and thus I can not force its use, so you must configure this manually.

Clean chroot builds will use Arch Linux configs, which do not use pigz either and thus the build might take a while but meh.

You are free to pull the builds from polarrepo if you can't wait for the build process.

Furthermore I will be rewriting this package when I get time, this is a binary package (which I adopted) and the source code is available upstream and thus it should be built from source with the Arch toolchain. This will increase build times dramatically, this PKGBUILD will be moved over to google-cloud-cli-bin or a easier name such as gcloud-cli-bin and then have it superseded by gcloud-cli.

Take care,
Polarian

@Cornul11 you might try changing your /etc/makepkg.conf and use pigz there. See here.

@PolarianDev, would using pigz be a possibility, or is it not recommended to add non-mandatory deps just for the build process?

@Cornul11 gzip is single threaded and there is A LOT of man pages, so it takes a good while to compress all the man pages.

Feel free to pull the package from my repository if you do not want to build it.

Take care,
Polarian