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The checksum of kanboard-1.2.27.zip doesn't match: the file that downloads from GitHub has acc3328d19e45f93ef050f6c076676cc2cf4bebdee5c10aa87c81beb3e10bd44, which differs from PKGBUILD. Is it only me?

I had to change the SHA-256 checksum to that exact value too: acc3328d19e45f93ef050f6c076676cc2cf4bebdee5c10aa87c81beb3e10bd44.

The checksum of kanboard-1.2.27.zip doesn't match: the file that downloads from GitHub has acc3328d19e45f93ef050f6c076676cc2cf4bebdee5c10aa87c81beb3e10bd44, which differs from PKGBUILD. Is it only me?

The links printed after install seem outdated. E.g.

http://kanboard.net/documentation/nice-urls

should probably point to

https://docs.kanboard.org/en/latest/admin_guide/url_rewriting.html

For anyone getting 'Internal Error: The directory "/usr/share/webapps/kanboard/data" must be writeable by your web server user'

The problem and a hint for the fix was already reported by cydanil in 2020 but I could not put 2 and 2 together without the error message above in the same post. So i will be as verbose as I would have needed it to be to have helped myself. First php-fpm needs to be installed (which is not a direct dependency in the PKGBUILD). php5-fpm which is referenced by e.g. the nginx-conf is no longer in the current repositories. therefore the nginx-conf (that you copy into the /etc/nginx/sites-available folder) needs to have the factcgi_pass path to the socket adjusted. for me it was:

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;

With that out of the way:

php-fpm.service defines ProtectSystem=full which prevents subfolders of /usr from being written to. as it happens kanboards data-directory is in /usr/share/webapp/kanboard/data as evidenced by the error message at the beginning of my post. Instead of lowering the protection overall you can add exemptions to this.

$sudo systemctl edit php-fpm.service

and add the following 2 lines in between the comments:

[Service]

ReadWritePaths=/usr/share/webapps/kanboard/data

Thats was it for me.

People should actually read the last updated timestamp before flagging a package as orphaned, FYI.

Please update the package or disown it.

1.2.14 and 1.2.15 released. Updating the version and hash seems enough.

Also, I think it would be a good idea to switch from zip to tar.gz.

Thanks for the work!

It's worth noting that the Kanboard install targets /usr/share/webapps/kanboard. php-fpm, however, disallows writing to /usr by default.

This can be addressed by either updating php-fpm.service (see ProtectSystem), or modifying the target installation directory.

The default config is now patched in the packaging stage to avoid the issue with the PHP DIR macro and uses a variable called "ARCH_BASE_DIR".

@carlenny thanks for letting me know about this issue. I was hoping to avoid modifying the supplied default config, but that default will have to be changed to maintained the standard behavior for webapp packages.