Cachyos/quickshell-git very outdated

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As title; the quickshell-git package in the cachy repos is really outdated. Pls update :smiley:

I actually don’t know how often the -git packages in the cachyos repos are supposed to be updated, but I guess maybe some auto-update script broke because the commit it’s at right now is more than month old.

2

I’m really confused that they distribute the git packages. It is not convenient and intransparent when a package is typically hosted on the AUR but also mirrored as an actual -bin (!) package.

It’s the same with oh-my-zsh-git.

3

I always took the purpose of the cachy-built git packages as just convenience; saves users the build time but lets them be up-to-date (although clearly not in this case, lol) to -git. The AUR also hosts -git-bin packages for some things, but in addition to them not being always available, -bin packages are a bit risky on AUR since, you know, anything could be in the prebuilt binary since it’s user-hosted. Being available through cachy official repos is a bit more “trustworthy”.

The intransparent part doesn’t really bother me, if I understood you correctly; you can know just by whether the package is available on pacman or not to know if it’s cachy-hosted or not. i.e. try sudo pacman -S package-name, if it returns an error, it’s an AUR package (and then you use paru etc to deal with it).

4

The speed of updates == speed of whoever maintains the package.

5

@ssareta
If the problem is related to info from dankshellmaterials and mangowm, my workaround:

exec-once=swayidle -w timeout 900 'bash -c "! mmsg -g -m | grep -q \"fullscreen 1\" && systemctl suspend"' &
exec-once=swayidle -w timeout 300 'wlopm --off eDP-1' resume 'wlopm --on eDP-1' &
6

That’s always the case for all packages. However, from the naming scheme “-git”, it’s not far off to assume that it’s actually build from the latest git source.

7

They should probably just name them -git-bin. I thought they were supposed to build weekly.

8

This PKGBUILD compiles the master branch and the package works well :slight_smile:

# Maintainer: Entailz <entail-wraps0r at icloud dot com>

_pkgname=quickshell
pkgname="$_pkgname-git"
pkgver=0.2.1.r813.g8db8ca1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick'
arch=(x86_64 aarch64)
url='https://git.outfoxxed.me/quickshell/quickshell'
options=(strip)
license=('LGPL-3.0-only')
depends=(
  'qt6-declarative'
  'qt6-base'
  'jemalloc'
  'qt6-svg'
  'libpipewire'
  'libxcb'
  'wayland'
  'libdrm'
  'mesa'
	'cpptrace'
	'vulkan-headers'
	'polkit'
)
makedepends=(
  'spirv-tools'
  'qt6-shadertools'
  'wayland'
  'wayland-protocols'
  'cli11'
  'ninja'
  'cmake'
  'git'
)
provides=("$_pkgname")
conflicts=("$_pkgname")

_pkgsrc="$_pkgname"
source=("$_pkgsrc"::"git+$url.git")
sha256sums=('SKIP')


pkgver() {
  cd "$_pkgsrc"
  printf "0.2.1.r%s.g%s" \
    "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" \
    "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
}

build() {
  cd "$_pkgsrc"
  cmake -GNinja -B build \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DDISTRIBUTOR="AUR (package: quickshell-git)" \
    -DINSTALL_QML_PREFIX=lib/qt6/qml \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-s"

  cmake --build build
}

package() {
  cd "$_pkgsrc"
  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build

  [[ -f LICENSE ]] && install -Dm644 LICENSE \
    "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE"
}
9

so it’s just a normal git package then

10

Just some corrections to make it work, including bumping the version in the PKGBUILD so it’s higher than the one in the repo, because the master branch’s version was lower (even though it’s newer).

11

Yes, I know. The problem is that it will never update, even with the --devel flag because it tries to load from the repos first and there, the version is outdated. You will also get noted about your local version being newer than the ones available.

12

I mean if you want to build it yourself, you can also just use the AUR quickshell-git package (paru -Sa quickshell-git). My post is just a request to cachyos maintainers to update the prebuilt package in the cachyos repos.