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• Do not flag out of date for build or packaging issues.
• Please do flag out of date if e.g. the current upstream branch which is kept up to date is switched (back) from lite to master or sc.

Regards!

Ahoj @emnichtda,

thanks for report. Something has changed upstream.

Fixed (although now less icon files will be installed).

Hey, I've been having issues with building the package lately. It fails at package() with

install: cannot stat 'element-desktop/res/img/element.png': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: schildichat-desktop-git-exit status 4

any1 else? any fix?

Please report issues related to the build process or dependencies here in the comments.

• Do not flag out of date for build or packaging issues.
• Please do flag out of date if e.g. the current upstream branch which is kept up to date is switched (back) from lite to master or sc.

Regards!

I've added you as co-maintainer. I'll disown it as soon as you signal me you're okay with that

I am OK with that.

Regards!

Considering I've been terrible at maintaining it for the past few months (sorry about that!): gladly! Thanks for having taken care of it for a while now!

I've added you as co-maintainer. I'll disown it as soon as you signal me you're okay with that (which could also be right away ^^).

Turned out that

I needed to apply the quick-and-dirty patch workaround_issue_265.patch to work arround this issue

was due to "too new" electron version.

↗ Latest working version is indeed electron30, my fault, now corrected in ↗ my local variant of the PKGBUILD.

By the way, I am willing to maintain this package, if you want to hand it over.

Regards!

Update to this comment from 2024-10-21:

↗ Use the lite branch for now, not the master branch. So append #branch=lite to the git source.

As of now, this is the same could which currently is rebased to master.

Regards!

Here is a diff of the current PKGBUILD to a PKGBUILD which enables building the latest, freshly updated state of schildichat-desktop-git:

--- PKGBUILD.orig   2024-10-21 15:29:55.392792305 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD    2024-10-21 16:14:53.942697954 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Maintainer: lsf
+# Contributor: dreieck (https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dreieck)
 # Contributor: Bruno Pagani <archange@archlinux.org>
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@

-_electron=electron30
-_nodeversion=18
+_electron=electron33
+_nodeversion=20
 pkgname=schildichat-desktop-git
 _pkgname=schildichat-desktop
-pkgver=1.11.36.sc.3.r0.a1458b1
+pkgver=1.11.81.sc.0.test.0.r1.6b2b1a6
 pkgrel=1
@@ -15,8 +16,8 @@
 url="https://schildi.chat"
-license=(Apache)
+license=('Apache-2.0')
 conflicts=(schildichat-desktop schildichat-desktop-bin)
 provides=(schildichat-desktop=${pkgver})
-makedepends=(npm git yarn python python-setuptools rust tcl ${_electron} nvm libxcrypt-compat asar)
+makedepends=(npm git yarn python python-setuptools rust tcl "nodejs>=${_nodeversion}" nvm libxcrypt-compat asar)
 depends=(${_electron} libsecret)
-source=(git+https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop.git#branch=sc
+source=(git+https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-desktop.git
         git+https://github.com/SchildiChat/matrix-js-sdk.git
@@ -27,3 +28,4 @@
         schildichat-desktop.desktop
-        schildichat-desktop.sh)
+        schildichat-desktop.sh
+        "workaround_issue_265.patch::https://github.com/user-attachments/files/17462237/workaround_issue_265.patch.txt")
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
@@ -35,3 +37,4 @@
             '6450af411fea039cb76357ff4ea7f1ef336601315de4d27b848a75d7960cef17'
-            '8084211fe11ba23be956ef4b8bb0fffaa6aaa721b79f9753ecc3574666ef95ce')
+            '8084211fe11ba23be956ef4b8bb0fffaa6aaa721b79f9753ecc3574666ef95ce'
+            '74e4efde4a76261203ee7b215309b3be11308151c8e3270b07e7c96099822c16')

@@ -46,3 +49,3 @@
   _ensure_local_nvm
-  nvm install ${_nodeversion}
+  #nvm install ${_nodeversion} # Not needed; `nodejs>=${_nodeversion}` from the repositories suffices.

@@ -68,2 +71,5 @@
   cd ${srcdir}/${_pkgname}
+
+  patch -Np1 --follow-symlinks -i "${srcdir}/workaround_issue_265.patch"
+
   make setup
@@ -75,3 +81,3 @@
   _ensure_local_nvm
-  nvm use ${_nodeversion}
+  #nvm use ${_nodeversion} # Not needed; `nodejs>=${_nodeversion}` from the repositories suffices.
   export SQLCIPHER_BUNDLED=1

(↗ and here the complete reworked PKGBUILD.)

Note that

• The git branch sc should not be used but just the master branch,
• the minimal version of node needed to be increased to 20 (and that actually it also works with the official nodejs from Arch Linux, version 22),
• I needed to apply the quick-and-dirty patch workaround_issue_265.patch to work arround this issue,
• that ${_electron} is not needed in the makedepends array since it is already part of the depends array.

Regards!,
and thanks for the package.

Apache is not a valid SPDX license identifier in Arch Linux. I think you should use Apache-2.0.

Since upstream now has rebased major rework to the master branch, I suggest updating the $pkgver of this -git package.

Regards!