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Ugh, it was a PITA to create this package. Please note that errors are silenced, so if you have any issues with zim, remove &>/dev/null from your /etc/zshrc - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/zshrc?h=zsh-zim-git&id=5a378e94d516c57d39629de545b78b0f020d86a4

I had to do it this way: $ZIM_HOME is only writable by root and zim constantly tries to update & recompile itself (=write to $ZIM_HOME), which results in permission errors when starting zsh as a normal user.

If you want to add/remove a module:

1. Add a respective zmodule in /etc/zsh/zimrc
2. Run as root: zimfw install && zsh

@carbolymer you likely saw it already, but just in case, upstream made some changes that might need this PKGBUILD to be modified.

Very strange. Originally it built fine on one of my systems, and another had the problem. However, when I tried to rebuild on the original system, it failed the second time. I also realised my minimal example was in zsh, but even testing with a clean bash shell using env -i bash --norc --noprofile, I still get the 1 exit code.

Thanks for the fix and the add.

@Rhinoceros, that's weird. I don't have this error, nor your minimal example with chmod and foo give me an error. I'm getting return code 0 even in bash. I've included your alternative chmod for the sake of compatibility.

Thanks for the fix.

I've run into another problem, which prevents the package from building:

patching file zimfw.zsh
Hunk #2 succeeded at 62 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 95 (offset 1 line).
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

It seems that the final chmod command has a non-zero exit code because of the symlinks at pkg/zsh-zim-git/usr/lib/zim/modules/zsh-syntax-highlighting/highlighters/*/README.md. Apparently chmod -R with symlinks fails!

$ mkdir dir
$ touch dir/foo
$ ln -s foo dir/bar
$ chmod -R u+rX,g+rX,o+rX dir
mode of 'dir' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
neither symbolic link 'dir/bar' nor referent has been changed
mode of 'dir/foo' retained as 0644 (rw-r--r--)
$ echo $?
1

Weirdly I don't think this occurred all the time when building the package. Anyway, I managed to fix it by replacing the final chmod line with a command to ignore symlinks:

find "${ZIM_HOME}" ! -type l -execdir chmod u+rX,g+rX,o+rX {} \;

Upstream changed surrounding lines again. Here is an updated zimfw.zsh.patch.

--- zimfw.zsh   2021-09-21 16:26:34.034179638 +1000
+++ zimfw.zsh   2021-09-21 16:30:58.546504098 +1000
@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@

 _zimfw_build_init() {
   local -r ztarget=${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh
-  # Force update of init.zsh if it's older than .zimrc
-  if [[ ${ztarget} -ot ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zimrc ]]; then
-    command mv -f ${ztarget}{,.old} || return 1
-  fi
   _zimfw_mv =(
     print -R "zimfw() { source ${ZIM_HOME}/zimfw.zsh \"\${@}\" }"
     print -R "zmodule() { source ${ZIM_HOME}/zimfw.zsh \"\${@}\" }"
@@ -65,16 +61,13 @@
     if (( ${#_zfunctions} )) print -R 'autoload -Uz '${_zfunctions#${~zpre}}
     print -R ${(F)_zcmds#${~zpre}}
   ) ${ztarget}
+  chmod -R u+rX,g+rX,o+rX "${ZIM_HOME}" &>/dev/null
 }

 _zimfw_build_login_init() {
   # Array with unique dirs. ${ZIM_HOME} or any subdirectory should only occur once.
   local -Ur zscriptdirs=(${ZIM_HOME} ${${_zdirs##${ZIM_HOME}/*}:A})
   local -r zscriptglob=("${^zscriptdirs[@]}/(^*test*/)#*.zsh(|-theme)(N-.)") ztarget=${ZIM_HOME}/login_init.zsh
-  # Force update of login_init.zsh if it's older than .zimrc
-  if [[ ${ztarget} -ot ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zimrc ]]; then
-    command mv -f ${ztarget}{,.old} || return 1
-  fi
   _zimfw_mv =(
     print -Rn "() {
   setopt LOCAL_OPTIONS CASE_GLOB EXTENDED_GLOB
@@ -101,6 +94,7 @@
 } \"\${@}\"
 "
   ) ${ztarget}
+  chmod -R u+rX,g+rX,o+rX "${ZIM_HOME}" &>/dev/null
 }

 _zimfw_build() {

@Rhinoceros, thanks for the fix! I've updated the package (I've also removed patch file copying as it's really not needed).

Oops, my mistake; I got confused. Upstream just modified surrounding lines. Here is an updated zimfw.zsh.patch that works.

--- zimfw.zsh   2021-07-28 16:45:25.000000000 +1000
+++ zimfw.zsh   2021-07-28 16:45:25.000000000 +1000
@@ -52,26 +52,19 @@

 _zimfw_build_init() {
   local -r ztarget=${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh
-  # Force update of init.zsh if it's older than .zimrc
-  if [[ ${ztarget} -ot ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zimrc ]]; then
-    command mv -f ${ztarget}{,.old} || return 1
-  fi
   _zimfw_mv =(
     print -R "zimfw() { source ${ZIM_HOME}/zimfw.zsh \"\${@}\" }"
     if (( ${#_zfpaths} )) print -R 'fpath=('${_zfpaths:A}' ${fpath})'
     if (( ${#_zfunctions} )) print -R 'autoload -Uz '${_zfunctions}
     print -R ${(F)_zcmds}
   ) ${ztarget}
+  chmod -R u+rX,g+rX,o+rX "${ZIM_HOME}" &>/dev/null
 }

 _zimfw_build_login_init() {
   # Array with unique dirs. ${ZIM_HOME} or any subdirectory should only occur once.
   local -Ur zscriptdirs=(${ZIM_HOME} ${${_zdirs##${ZIM_HOME}/*}:A})
   local -r zscriptglob=("${^zscriptdirs[@]}/(^*test*/)#*.zsh(|-theme)(N-.)") ztarget=${ZIM_HOME}/login_init.zsh
-  # Force update of login_init.zsh if it's older than .zimrc
-  if [[ ${ztarget} -ot ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zimrc ]]; then
-    command mv -f ${ztarget}{,.old} || return 1
-  fi
   _zimfw_mv =(
     print -Rn "() {
   setopt LOCAL_OPTIONS CASE_GLOB EXTENDED_GLOB
@@ -98,6 +91,7 @@
 } \"\${@}\"
 "
   ) ${ztarget}
+  chmod -R u+rX,g+rX,o+rX "${ZIM_HOME}" &>/dev/null
 }

 _zimfw_build() {

package() is failing for me.

patching file zimfw.zsh
Hunk #2 FAILED at 66.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 95 (offset -1 lines).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file zimfw.zsh.rej

Looks like this part of zimfw.zsh.patch is no longer needed, as upstream has already incorporated it:

-  # Force update of init.zsh if it's older than .zimrc
-  if [[ ${ztarget} -ot ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zimrc ]]; then
-    command mv -f ${ztarget}{,.old} || return 1
-  fi

(Also, out of interest, why do you copy the patch before applying it, then delete it? You could always just apply it where it is.)

@Rhinoceros, thanks for debugging and reporting it here! You're right, it is imported twice. I've removed unnecessary line from zshrc:

source ${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh &>/dev/null

In my opinion this /usr/lib/zim/templates/zshrc works fine, I took it from zimfw repo (which recommends it for enabling zim).

Ah, so modules are being sourced twice because /etc/zsh/zshrc contains two lines

source ${ZIM_HOME}/templates/zshrc &>/dev/null
source ${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh &>/dev/null

but /usr/lib/zim/templates/zshrc also contains source ${ZIM_HOME}/init.zsh. I'm not sure if this is an error from upstream? I also had a look through /usr/lib/zim/templates/zshrc, and it had a bunch of options in there that I overwrite in ~/.zshrc anyway. It also contained the very nasty HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS, which wrecked my history file! I just removed the first line in /etc/zsh/zshrc and replaced it with

source ${ZIM_HOME}/zimfw.zsh init -q &>/dev/null

This seems to work fine.