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Are you still maintaining this package? 2025.11.2 came out today.

Can I request that you change the java-runtime=21 dependency to java-runtime>=21? I tested with GraalVM 25 today and bar a few deprecation warnings about usage of sun.misc.Unsafe (harmless), neo4j works with Java 25.

Can you also update the provides to include the version also, like so?

provides=("${_pkgname}" "${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")

I need that for my depends line in my cypher-shell package, which depends on the "same" version of neo4j-community-bin.

2025.04.0 came out, here's the update patch. Note the provides and the removal of the mv lib:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index f61677c..d94a87e 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 _pkgname=neo4j-community
 pkgname=${_pkgname}-bin
-pkgver="2025.02.0"
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver="2025.04.0"
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A fully transactional graph database implemented in Java (binary package)'
 license=('GPL-3.0-only')
 arch=('any')
 url="https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j"
 _java_version=21
 depends=("java-runtime=$_java_version" "psmisc")
-provides=("${_pkgname}")
+provides=("${_pkgname}" "${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")
 conflicts=("${_pkgname}" neo4j-enterprise)
 source=(
     "https://dist.neo4j.org/deb/neo4j_${pkgver}_all.deb"
@@ -16,15 +16,12 @@ source=(
     "neo4j.tmpfiles"
 )
 # https://dist.neo4j.org/deb/neo4j_${pkgver}_all.deb.sha256
-sha256sums=(
-    '3ad5d65723be7f4c0431cde99207fcefb4d7069c7d971f14ae5841794c985df7'
-    '440874201629f436b3817be05d7f8240c9bef603a11dc0a125634287c0376b5d'
-    'a4a12084b93c357adfc54d1c0736d710ff507418824e08e33cc1f30bdc8a67f8'
-)
+sha256sums=('f3e110bb32b7832d6dcaa8d1fc155a1ce13bd5ec599c2c93953ee878c20ab925'
+            '440874201629f436b3817be05d7f8240c9bef603a11dc0a125634287c0376b5d'
+            'a4a12084b93c357adfc54d1c0736d710ff507418824e08e33cc1f30bdc8a67f8')

 package() {
     bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
-    mv "$pkgdir/lib" "$pkgdir/usr"
     install -Dm644 "$srcdir/neo4j.sysusers" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/neo4j.conf"
     install -Dm644 "$srcdir/neo4j.tmpfiles" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/neo4j.conf"
 }

OK updated

The java dependency is out of date, the current neo4j version requires JRE 21:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 646733e..040e34c 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pkgdesc='A fully transactional graph database implemented in Java (binary packag
 license=('GPL-3.0-only')
 arch=('any')
 url="https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j"
-_java_version=17
+_java_version=21
 depends=("java-runtime=$_java_version")
 provides=("${_pkgname}")
 conflicts=("${_pkgname}" neo4j-enterprise)

OK thanks for the addition

Hey, thanks for the quick update. By the way, I discovered that the deb package does not contain cypher-shell (bin/cypher-shell, lib/cypher-shell-2025.01.0.jar), but weirdly, the neo4j-community-2025.01.0-unix.tar.gz archive does. I also discovered that the cypher-shell AUR package had been orphaned since a year or two, so I took the liberty to adopt that package and make it compatible/complementary to this neo4j package, by taking bin/cypher-shell, lib/cypher-shell-2025.01.0.jar from that neo4j-community-2025.01.0-unix.tar.gz archive and install it in exactly the same way as you do neo4j-community-bin (i.e., they can be installed together, no conflicts, etc)

Diff to upgrade to 2025.01.0:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 810034c..22a19c8 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 _pkgname=neo4j-community
 pkgname=${_pkgname}-bin
-pkgver="5.26.0"
+pkgver="2025.01.0"
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A fully transactional graph database implemented in Java (binary package)'
 license=('GPL-3.0-only')
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ source=(
     "neo4j.sysusers"
     "neo4j.tmpfiles"
 )
-# https://neo4j.com/wp-content/get_checksum.php?q=deb/neo4j_${pkgver}_all.deb.sha256
+# https://dist.neo4j.org/deb/neo4j_${pkgver}_all.deb.sha256
 sha256sums=(
-    '23c20768284e0dfc18b35a7f2fae47bb3b5182d0abf5ad2c334c49a8f5d8495a'
+    '050b0585799ff437fb6e3426e4e76502e66ebfe6d5e9506dd336b07ce6336098'
     '440874201629f436b3817be05d7f8240c9bef603a11dc0a125634287c0376b5d'
     'a4a12084b93c357adfc54d1c0736d710ff507418824e08e33cc1f30bdc8a67f8'
 )

@zxeoc Try setting a proxy. It's CloudFront CDN is blocking requests from some specific regions.