Provide Arch Linux (AUR) packages

[GnuGorets]

Hi) Could you help, please, are you able to add this package to AUR?

[dex4er]

Hi. I see several problems here:

Electron-Builder builds packages in DEB and RPM formats only. Arch Linux prefers rather source packages that might be not possible to run at all because of ABI incompatibilities of older Electron-Builder with never OSes. This is also reason, that we use Ubuntu 20.04 (not 22.04 or 24.04) to build our binary packages.

With old binaries we would need to add old dependencies. Debian-based distributions still provide compatible packages on the latest versions so we are there fine. On others systems probably we would need to distribute them bundled. In the end we would solve the problem already solved by other package formats: Snap and Flatpak.

I would be happy to see some contribution from Arch Linux community and maybe someone will prepare the package on https://aur.archlinux.org/ for us.

[dex4er]

I think potential Arch Linux package would be similar to existing Electron packages, ie. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=signal-desktop-beta-bin

[GnuGorets]

It looks like I did it successfully)

1. unzip the archive
2. do updpkgsums
3. do makepkg -si

After I was able to run installed freelens. I hope this helps you?

==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: freelens-bin 0.1.2-1 (Mon 20 Jan 2025 22:22:02 CET)
==> Installing package freelens-bin with pacman -U...
[sudo] password for $USER: 
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)   New Version  Net Change

freelens-bin  0.1.2-1      666.89 MiB

freelens.zip

[robertobandini]

Hi @GnuGorets thank you very much for your issue and your help!
If you have any other reports, suggestions or ideas, let us know, we are looking for collaborators!

@dex4er What do you think?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Sharing_and_maintaining_packages

Thanks to both of you!

[notz]

After I added a package for freelens to aur, I came across this ticket. See here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freelens-bin

[dex4er]

Thank you for your support!

[robertobandini]

@notz great, thanks!

[GnuGorets]

Thank you very much) Could you add CI/CD for this too, please? I see 0.1.2 in AUR, but I see 0.1.3 in Github for 2 hours)

[robertobandini]

Hi @GnuGorets, I reopen the issue so we can work about your request.
Let us know if someone can open a pr to contribute about that. Thanks

[dex4er]

I don't think we can/should update external repositories, especially if they are outside Github.

[robertobandini]

I don't think we can/should update external repositories, especially if they are outside Github.

https://github.com/KSXGitHub/github-actions-deploy-aur
Could it be helpful?
I've imagined something like that.
Could be our way, just creating an user for that.

[dex4er]

@notz I can prepare automation for this AUR package. Can you make me a co-maintainer for this package? 😄

[notz]

@dex4er I have added your account

[robertobandini]

Thanks!!