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it would be better if you used static package version instead of trying to dynamically resolve it, which results in a update loop

@oconnor663 I don't use yay. Is the update behavior related to the pkgver() function?

Actually I spoke a bit too soon. The package does work, but when I run yay -Syu, it seems to believe that the package always needs to be updated, even when I just updated it. Do you see anything similar?

@chadvoegele just rebuilt the package, and it works great!

@oconnor663 Thanks! I switched to your mirror. Can you verify?

I've created a GitHub mirror of the course software here: https://github.com/oconnor663/nand2tetris

Here's an example of updating this package to use that mirror, which I think makes the packaging process reliable and fully automatic: https://github.com/oconnor663/nand2tetris_aur/commit/b53a3001be22a591e499b8792467ae91e4eca2e3

Please let me know if that patch needs any tweaks.

It doesn't seem apparent to me that the prior source was the same as the explicit export URL I suggested, which still works.

In-browser URLs are subject to change, but this one might have a bigger shot shot at remaining stable.

@chungy This package used to use something very similar to what you are suggesting but we were having problems with the url changing. See [1] for example and the comment from @cweagans [2].

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/PKGBUILD?h=nand2tetris&id=5e3a5454d9c51abbb70ce16b29c9cf8f11ff0606

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nand2tetris/#comment-675503

The Google drive source should be downloadable automatically:

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index ed38e9b..5ef4c25 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 pkgbase = nand2tetris
    pkgdesc = Software suite accompanying Nand2Tetris course.
    pkgver = 2.6
-   pkgrel = 5
+   pkgrel = 6
    url = http://www.nand2tetris.org/
    arch = any
    license = GPL
    makedepends = unzip
    depends = java-runtime
+   source = nand2tetris.zip::https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1xZzcMIUETv3u3sdpM_oTJSTetpVee3KZ
    source = n2tCPUEmulator.run
    source = n2tVMEmulator.run
    source = n2tJackCompiler.run
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ pkgbase = nand2tetris
    source = n2tVMEmulator.desktop
    source = n2tHardwareSimulator.desktop
    source = n2tAssembler.desktop
+   sha256sums = d2cb160ad64ccb792158907d720976fb4fef8b8610bf9160dca38368153edbd9
    sha256sums = f93e4c08ed6af6a687f8d144598f998a19ac544d9fe6da05c162932d00f6a592
    sha256sums = f05fbcd9d86e7151c2e16682792586fd51086fa4864695ff8600256c15eb83d4
    sha256sums = 838dda39a97694ef1635ebbb0f6aa850623e281f70ef1e699930ee72e4934361
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6dea5d8..c80afa9 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@

 pkgname=nand2tetris
 pkgver=2.6
-pkgrel=5
+pkgrel=6
 pkgdesc="Software suite accompanying Nand2Tetris course."
 arch=('any')
 url="http://www.nand2tetris.org/"
 license=('GPL')
 depends=('java-runtime')
 makedepends=('unzip')
-source=(n2tCPUEmulator.run
+_nand2tetris_googledriveid=1xZzcMIUETv3u3sdpM_oTJSTetpVee3KZ
+source=("nand2tetris.zip::https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=${_nand2tetris_googledriveid}"
+        n2tCPUEmulator.run
         n2tVMEmulator.run
         n2tJackCompiler.run
         n2tHardwareSimulator.run
@@ -18,11 +20,9 @@ source=(n2tCPUEmulator.run
         n2tCPUEmulator.desktop
         n2tVMEmulator.desktop
         n2tHardwareSimulator.desktop
-        n2tAssembler.desktop
-)
-_nand2teris_source="nand2tetris.zip"
-_nand2teris_url="https://www.nand2tetris.org/software"
-sha256sums=('f93e4c08ed6af6a687f8d144598f998a19ac544d9fe6da05c162932d00f6a592'
+        n2tAssembler.desktop)
+sha256sums=('d2cb160ad64ccb792158907d720976fb4fef8b8610bf9160dca38368153edbd9'
+            'f93e4c08ed6af6a687f8d144598f998a19ac544d9fe6da05c162932d00f6a592'
             'f05fbcd9d86e7151c2e16682792586fd51086fa4864695ff8600256c15eb83d4'
             '838dda39a97694ef1635ebbb0f6aa850623e281f70ef1e699930ee72e4934361'
             '38884a770a7535e35363ffffb8918a13ff83f67281c71e42b488f645608564cc'
@@ -32,22 +32,6 @@ sha256sums=('f93e4c08ed6af6a687f8d144598f998a19ac544d9fe6da05c162932d00f6a592'
             '054d1883e9eeaef754d9c4f15868d3722c08672a34a8d7dcdb242620ed22ba51'
             '2cd1b2c93dd68de97b7c3d9504dc850f4b60774065a70aa8496ba82c7889dc89')

-prepare() {
-  if [[ ! -f "${_nand2teris_source}" ]]
-  then
-    echo "Download ${_nand2teris_source} from ${_nand2teris_url} and place in ${srcdir}"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-
-  echo "d2cb160ad64ccb792158907d720976fb4fef8b8610bf9160dca38368153edbd9  ${_nand2teris_source}" | sha256sum -c --quiet
-  if [[ ! $? -eq 0 ]]
-  then
-    echo "Integrity check failed for ${_nand2teris_source}"
-  fi
-
-  unzip ${_nand2teris_source}
-}
-
 package() {
   cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}

@chadvoegele idk about @mar04, but my "workflow" is to use yay. So every so often I upgrade my machine with yay, and if you update the pkgrel, it tries to install nand2tetris again because it sees that the pkgrel is newer. So I just tried to upgrade and I got the "error" telling me to download from nand2tetris.org. Therefore it didn't upgrade that package, and nand2tetris will always have a pending update until I download the source again and place it in srcdir. Please bump down the pkgrel, or everyone with this package will always see there is a pending update, even though they have no need to install it again.