Package Details: polychromatic-git 0.9.0.r0.gd006b85-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/polychromatic-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: polychromatic-git
Description: RGB lighting management front-end application for OpenRazer
Upstream URL: https://github.com/polychromatic/polychromatic
Licenses: GPL-3.0-or-later
Conflicts: polychromatic
Provides: polychromatic
Submitter: z3ntu
Maintainer: z3ntu (lah7)
Last Packager: lah7
Votes: 5
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2016-11-25 14:30 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-04-17 16:31 (UTC)

Latest Comments

Twiki commented on 2025-06-04 11:38 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-04 13:13 (UTC) by Twiki)

Did I misread?

You wrote that the latest commit would be sourced. That's currently ef81733 here: https://github.com/polychromatic/polychromatic/commit/ef81733ef1e8488e3b9a1368fa6cf7be5711e5da

But yay shows me this: "0.9.0.r0.gd006b85-1" which is commit d006b85 which is here: https://github.com/polychromatic/polychromatic/commit/d006b858c027a91b819cbfb793ffed0aeb298c7f

It will be sourcing the latest Git (VCS) commit and described as [release].r[commits since].[sha1 commit hash]-[pkgrel]

I'm going to try from the command line with a downloaded snapshot.

EDIT. A newer commit (g54590f8 the one from PKGBUILD) will be installed (so still not the latest):

makepkg -sic
==> Making package: polychromatic-git 0.9.3.r8.g54590f8-1 (wo 04 jun 2025 14:14:39 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
[sudo] password for twiki: 
sudo: a password is required

==> ERROR: Aborted by user! Exiting...
==> Cleaning up...

I'm going to trust the "git describe --tags --long" in PKGBUILD to get info for the latest commit. Apologies for all the comments. Peace.

EDIT. I installed from the command line with makepkg, and the controller displays 0.9.5 in About.

Twiki commented on 2025-06-04 11:13 (UTC)

I just started the installation. But apparently version 0.9.0.r0.gd006b85-1 will be installed. So I chickened out.

yay -Sua polychromatic-git
:: Searching AUR for updates...
 -> Packages not in AUR: ktextaddons5
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: qt5-datavis3d
:: 6 dependencies will also be installed for this operation.
   extra/libappindicator-gtk3     -> 12.10.0.r298-4
   extra/python-colour            -> 0.1.5-15
   extra/python-openrazer         -> 3.10.3-1
   extra/python-pyqt6             -> 6.9.0-1
   extra/python-pyqt6-webengine   -> 6.9.0-1
   extra/python-setproctitle      -> 1.3.5-1

:: 1 package to upgrade/install.
1  aur/polychromatic-git   -> 0.9.0.r0.gd006b85-1
==> Packages to exclude: (eg: "1 2 3", "1-3", "^4" or repo name)
 -> Excluding packages may cause partial upgrades and break systems
==> 1
 there is nothing to do

Twiki commented on 2025-06-04 10:59 (UTC)

@lah7 No, you thanks for explaining.

lah7 commented on 2025-06-04 06:37 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-04 06:38 (UTC) by lah7)

@Twiki The pkgver() function in PKGBUILD determines the version. It will be sourcing the latest Git (VCS) commit and described as [release].r[commits since].[sha1 commit hash]-[pkgrel]

It's not necessary for AUR git packages to keep bumping the pkgver, unless the package changes. That said, thanks for highlighting the inconsistency in SRCINFO.

Twiki commented on 2025-06-03 22:29 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-03 22:30 (UTC) by Twiki) 

SRCINFO: pkgver = 0.9.0.r0.gd006b85
PKGBUILD: pkgver=0.9.3.r8.g54590f8
Polychromatic GitHub latest release (2025-04-18): 0.9.5

What version number will be installed?

smorky commented on 2025-01-23 20:53 (UTC) (edited on 2025-01-23 20:57 (UTC) by smorky)

Edit: Sorry, I now see sassc was dropped. I don't know why the update complained about it missing then...

Hi, the package seems to (new-ish-ly?) require sassc, but it is not listed in the depends, causing updates to fail. Installing it manually seems to work around it.

theodore commented on 2020-11-11 01:01 (UTC)

Is this package still maintained? If yes, shouldn't be pointing to the https://github.com/polychromatic/polychromatic/tree/dev-1.0.0-pyqt5 branch instead?

Thanks.

m3thodic commented on 2017-03-14 05:26 (UTC)

Hi there, looks like the maintainer changed some of the content layout, this diff fixes it: https://gist.github.com/tonylambiris/8e00e86507e335d4f834b8b083e31ba2 Thanks!

lswest commented on 2017-03-05 17:21 (UTC)

I just installed this, and had to also install libappindicator-gtk3 (from the official repositories) to get the tray indicator working. Maybe add it to the dependencies? Or at least as an optional one.