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Dear all, I'm strugling installing this package as I get this common error when installing with yay: ERROR Backend 'setuptools.build_meta' is not available.

I understand this is linked to an issue in my python setuptools package but cant figure out how to fix this. my python version is 3.14.3 and pip version 26.0.1. I have the setuptools package installed, as well as wheel package

Any advice or guidance is welcomed.

As well as:

[urlhaus]
enabled = yes
interval = 5m

Because of this issue.

Shall you add in the provided fangfrisch.conf:

 [interserver]
enabled = yes

@gesh The external_command || exit 1 method is used to approximate how Gentoo Linux ebuilds employ external_command || die "Some message". In fact, Gentoo ebuilds require the use of || die or they will be rejected. I am fine with a bit of "weirdness" if it means that the installation will reliably abort when an external command fails.

Note:

• python-wheel is usually not necessary as a makedepend, unless you're manipulating the wheels directly
• makepkg doesn't know how to handle multiple source files by the same name -- you seem to have stumbled into an edge case where it doesn't complain about it though
• check() looks overly complicated, with some parts upstreamable -- surely the "populate a temporary sqlite db" code should be in a conftest.py fixture? And the fiddling with PYTHONPATH suggests to me that the tests want to run in an environment where the package is already installed -- which per wiki, suggests it should be installed in a venv for testing
• The pervasive || exit 1 here is weird -- I don't see it in other PKGBUILDs. Not sure if makepkg doesn't run with set -e or somesuch, rendering this unnecessary.
• Given /etc/fangfrisch/fangfrisch-has-news.sh might be edited, shouldn't it be in backup?