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Since https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop/releases/tag/v1.11.81-sc.0.test.0 exists now, an upgrade to that may be worthwhile.

Just a note:

SchildiChat seems to be (temporarily) abandoned and has outstanding bugs, and the branch lite seems to be currently maintained.

Maybe an idea to create a schildichat-desktop-lite package, or temporarily switch to the lite branch?

Regards!

I de-maintain this package immediately.

@balaraz electron25 correctly depends on nodejs-lts-hydrogen, which provides nodejs=18. If you have other packages that depend on nodejs>18, they cannot coexist in Arch.

Hello! Please update the Electron dependency to a newer version. Recently, Electron 25 started to depend on nodejs-lts and this causes a conflict with nodejs, which other programs depend on. I tried to build it with electron27 and everything works.

• I tried to build and use this with up to date electron (changed _electron=electron25 to _electron=electron), which currently is version 29, and schildichat-desktop seems to work with that. So you might get rid of old dependencies. (If you want to be sure you can set it to a specific up to date version.)

diff to the PKGBUILD:

--- PKGBUILD.org    2024-04-06 09:38:25.550009545 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD    2024-04-06 09:53:37.570021969 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: mynacol <dc07d (ät) mynacol (dót) xyz>
+#
+# Previous contributors of schildichat-desktop:
+# dreieck (https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dreieck)
+#
 # Previous contributors of schildichat-desktop-git:
@@ -8,10 +12,10 @@

-_electron=electron25
+_electron=electron
 pkgname=schildichat-desktop
 pkgver=1.11.36.sc.3
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="A Matrix client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience"
-arch=(x86_64)
+arch=(x86_64 i686)
 url="https://schildi.chat"
-license=(Apache)
+license=(Apache-2.0)
 makedepends=(npm git yarn python rust tcl nvm make libxcrypt-compat)

• It seems that libsecret needs to be added to the depends array. From namcap:

schildichat-desktop E: Dependency libsecret detected and not included (libraries ['usr/lib/libsecret-1.so.0'] needed in files ['usr/lib/schildichat-desktop/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/keytar/build/Release/keytar.node'])

(If possible I do not want to maintain this package, I have enough to maintain.)

@dreieck I agree with the technical assessment and goal. However, I won't implement such a change. If you want to step up, you can be the new maintainer of this package.

This PKGBUILD does also download stuff in build().

Can you move all downloads, that are not possible via the source array, into prepare(), so that build can run in an offline environment?

==> Starting build()...
[...]
Packaged dist/schildichat-web-1.11.36-sc.3.tar.gz
Done in 87.74s.
echo "1.11.36-sc.3" > element-web/webapp/version
yarnpkg --cwd element-desktop run fetch --cfgdir ''
yarn run v1.22.21
$ yarn run mkdirs && ts-node scripts/fetch-package.ts --cfgdir ''
$ mkdirp packages deploys
../element-web/webappalready exists
Skipping config file
Pack ../element-web/webapp -> webapp.asar
(node:6504) Warning: Closing directory handle on garbage collection
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Done!
Done in 0.96s.
SQLCIPHER_BUNDLED=1 yarnpkg --cwd element-desktop run build:native
yarn run v1.22.21
$ yarn run hak
$ ts-node scripts/hak/index.ts
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
hak check: matrix-seshat
hak check: keytar
hak fetch: matrix-seshat
Fetching matrix-seshat@^3.0.1
Running yarn install in /tmp/makepkg/build/schildichat-desktop/src/schildichat-desktop/element-desktop/.hak/matrix-seshat/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/build
[...]
warning jest > @jest/core > jest-config > jest-environment-jsdom > jsdom > w3c-hr-time@1.0.2: Use your platform's native performance.now() and performance.timeOrigin.
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
warning Ignored scripts due to flag.
success Saved lockfile.
hak fetch: keytar
Fetching keytar@^7.9.0
Running yarn install in /tmp/makepkg/build/schildichat-desktop/src/schildichat-desktop/element-desktop/.hak/keytar/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/build
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[...]
warning prebuild > node-gyp > request > uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[##########################################################################################################################################################################################] 409/410
[...]
$ cargo-cp-artifact -nc index.node -- cargo build --message-format=json-render-diagnostics --release --features=bundled-sqlcipher
    Updating crates.io index
       Fetch [=============================>   ] 204 complete; 16 pending                       
[... network usage is high ...]
  Downloaded futures-task v0.3.28
  Downloaded regex-syntax v0.4.2
  Downloaded serde v1.0.118
  Downloaded serde_derive v1.0.118
[...]
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v25.2.0/node-v25.2.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http 200 https://artifacts.electronjs.org/headers/v25.2.0/node-v25.2.0-headers.tar.gz?force_headers_dist=1
gyp http GET https://electronjs.org/headers/v25.2.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http 200 https://artifacts.electronjs.org/headers/v25.2.0/SHASUMS256.txt?force_headers_dist=1
[...]

Regards and thanks a big lot for the package!

I updated to 1.11.36, the full text search seems to be broken.

I've already moved on due to security concerns. The now updated electron 25 is already end of life with potentially multiple known chromium security issues. Therefore, I'd be more than happy to hand this package over to some willing hands.

@craeckie This package exclusively requires rust, not rustup. I assume something on your end got messed up. Maybe you already had rustup, which provides rust according to pacman metadata. Anyways, you should be able to call rustc --version in the shell before building this package.

Requires rust instead of rustup (at least for me). Maybe it was just misconfigured, but switching to rust fixed it for me.

Otherwise I get the following error:

Packaged dist/schildichat-web-1.11.30-sc.1.tar.gz
Done in 187.40s.
echo "1.11.30-sc.1" > element-web/webapp/version
yarnpkg --cwd element-desktop run fetch --cfgdir ''
yarn run v1.22.19
$ yarn run mkdirs && ts-node scripts/fetch-package.ts --cfgdir ''
$ mkdirp packages deploys
../element-web/webappalready exists
Skipping config file
Pack ../element-web/webapp -> webapp.asar
(node:46722) Warning: Closing directory handle on garbage collection
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)              Asset       Size  Ch
Done!
Done in 2.09s.
SQLCIPHER_STATIC=1 yarnpkg --cwd element-desktop run build:native
yarn run v1.22.19
$ yarn run hak
$ ts-node scripts/hak/index.ts
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
hak check: matrix-seshat
Can't find rustc,--version
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.warning.30e1625.svg   1.23 KiB    
make: *** [Makefile:79: desktop-common] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: schildichat-desktop-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:con-144.86cf68b.png   10.5 KiB    
schildichat-desktop - exit status 4