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is it possible to ship pre-built package?

Upstream recommends using docker, for which they have pre-built images (that might also work with podman).

PostgreSQL 18 is coming to the Arch repos. Before upgrading, backup the files for vectorchord and pgvector somewhere, and then follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL instructions. (In the next release, I'll also update the postinstall message to recommend changing postgresql.conf instead of doing ALTER SYSTEM SET.)

Also, you may find yourself updating VectorChord in this process. When doing so, remember to follow the migration steps at https://docs.immich.app/administration/postgres-standalone/#updating-vectorchord .

immich-web (localhost/immich-server:2283) used to be broken for some users of this package.

As @yparitcher also noticed, this was most likely caused by the following additions to .gitignore from f4e0aad2c495, which have since be reverted:

src/
pkg/
*.pkg.tar.zst
LICENSES/

The reason—for both this change sometimes and unpredictably breaking the build, and builds under a clean chroot still working—is unknown. I meant to investigate this on 2025-08-19 while updating the package but called it a day due to the unpredictability and long time of building. Help with figuring out why this happened would be greatly appreciated.

You may notice pacman refuse to upgrade this package, saying warning: cannot resolve "vectorchord", a dependency of "immich-server".

This is due to required manual intervention within the immich server database.

Newer versions of immich server have deprecated pgvecto.rs in favor of vectorchord.

Before updating from 1.133.1 or older, please follow steps 1 and 2 of the manual migration steps (should be the second dropdown) at https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/#migrating-to-vectorchord and uninstall pgvecto.rs.

Remember to remove references to "vectors.so" (which is shipped by pgvecto.rs) in shared_preload_libraries before pgvecto.rs in uninstalled. (For vectorchord to work, you'll need to add "vchord.so" to shared_preload_libraries after the upgrade as well.)

After that, you may upgrade this package. Please remember to follow steps 4 and 5 of the manual migration steps after the upgrade is finished to prevent data loss.

Seems that it tries to start the immich-machine-learning.service. It fails since I never installed it (my understanding was, it was optional), which stops the immich-server.

Thanks, @caoticofanegas.

Unfortunately, nothing really revealing there, at least to me:

Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Started Immich server.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit immich-server.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit immich-server.service has finished successfully.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 5020.
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Stopping Immich server...
░░ Subject: A stop job for unit immich-server.service has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A stop job for unit immich-server.service has begun execution.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 5156.
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Deactivated successfully.
░░ Subject: Unit succeeded
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit immich-server.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Stopped Immich server.
░░ Subject: A stop job for unit immich-server.service has finished
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A stop job for unit immich-server.service has finished.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 5156 and the job result is done.

Hi @kakkun , you might find more detailed info by running "journalctl -xeu immich-server" after trying to start it, tell us if you find something interesting.

I'm having an issue with 2.0.0-1 where the immich-server systemd-server stops immediately upon starting.

Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Started Immich server.
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Stopping Immich server...
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Deactivated successfully.
Oct 03 09:45:13 systemd[1]: Stopped Immich server.

@foxycode ugh, updpkgsums has quietly done that again. Fixed, thanks.

Failing to build with invalid checksums for "cities500.zip" and "admin2Codes.txt"

I did not. That's my fault.

@CountMurphy did you not see a preupgrade warning about this? Should I move it to postupgrade?

immich-machine-learning seems broken for 1.143.1-1. The directory /usr/lib/immich/immich-machine-learning no longer exists (just did a clean build). Downgrading fixes the issue.

EDIT: Figured out the issue. Yay is only installing immich-server, not immich-machine-learning or immich-cli. Running makepkg -i installed all packages. I'll have to keep that in mind next upgrade.

Looks like machine-learning install instructions were intentionally removed. This could cause issues for those using aur helpers.

Because the official Dockerfile does that; don't ask me why.

I don't see why that'd cause the issue, though. --force means dependencies are always reinstalled no matter what.