Package Details: whoogle 0.9.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/whoogle.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: whoogle
Description: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
Upstream URL: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Keywords: engine search whoogle
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: whoogle-git
Submitter: dr460nf1r3
Maintainer: dr460nf1r3 (chaotic-aur)
Last Packager: dr460nf1r3
Votes: 5
Popularity: 0.82
First Submitted: 2021-04-08 09:52 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-01-25 19:37 (UTC)

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dr460nf1r3 commented on 2021-12-05 12:10 (UTC) (edited on 2022-03-05 09:17 (UTC) by dr460nf1r3)

Installs with official instructions to /opt. Read here for more information and options for the systemd service. ( -> e) manual) The search engine is accessible at localhost:5000, set it as default engine using your browsers option. Binary builds are available at Chaotic-AUR!

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dr460nf1r3 commented on 2021-10-15 08:03 (UTC)

Also added. Thanks a lot!

kseistrup commented on 2021-10-15 07:52 (UTC)

You should probably have a

chown -R whoogle.whoogle /opt/whoogle-search/app/static/config

in your post_{install,upgrade} hooks, otherwise whoogle won't be able to save its configuration.

Also, you should use 127.0.0.1 as the listening address (and it really ought to be configurable) instead of listening to “everything”. You can make it configurable be installing a /etc/default/whoogle file with these contents:

BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
LISTEN_PORT=5000

and then change whoogle.service to reflect this:

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/whoogle
ExecStart=/opt/whoogle-search/venv/bin/python -um app --host $BIND_ADDRESS --port $LISTEN_PORT

Also, you should neither enable, nor start the service, as the user may want to configure their frontend or their firewall first.

You can make a user aware of the default values (and the file to configure it) during install.

Also, since the app is MIT licensed, you should copy LICENSE to the licenses directory, e.g.:

install -Dm0644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"

dr460nf1r3 commented on 2021-10-15 07:25 (UTC)

Ugh, I misunderstood you. I hope everything is fine now! :)

kseistrup commented on 2021-10-15 07:20 (UTC)

You missed the -D in the install -Dm0644 commands.

kseistrup commented on 2021-10-15 07:09 (UTC)

@dr460nf1r3

If you say

install -Dm0644 "$file" "$pkgdir/path/to/$file"

then $pkgdir/path/to/ will bew automatically created so you needn't install the directory first. The important thing is to have a filename as the last component, since install will create the next-to-last component for you.

Your sysusers config doesn't work. You are using /opt/whoogle-search as your target directory, whereas the whoogle.conf you supplied is using /opt/whoogle.

dr460nf1r3 commented on 2021-10-15 07:01 (UTC)

I updated the PKGBUILD with the recommendations, let me know if there is anything else left to do :)

kseistrup commented on 2021-10-15 06:31 (UTC)

(Ok, so the dir is /opt/whoogle-search, but the point about sysusers.d still holds.)

kseistrup commented on 2021-10-15 06:29 (UTC)

@astier I believe the proper way of creating users during install is to create a /usr/lib/sysusers.d/whoogle.conf file with contents like this:

u whoogle - "Whoogle" /opt/whoogle

See sysusers.d(5) for details.

astier commented on 2021-10-15 05:53 (UTC)

@kseistrup the following should suffice I think.

useradd -s /bin/bash -rd /opt/whoogle-search whoogle
chown -R whoogle: /opt/whoogle-search

Now @dr460nf1r3 has only to change the PKGBUILD and set User=whoogle in whoogle.service

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