Super-productivity: Adding it to AUR?

[tiotrom]

I was curious if you plan to add it to AUR. Cheers!

[johannesjo]

Hey there! Thanks for opening up this issue.

To be honest, I have no experience with publishing to AUR and Deployment to PPA was a really huge pain in the * while only a few people using it. So I'm open but a little hesitant.

Installing the snap package is not a valid option for you?

[tiotrom]

I use Arch...but please leave this open and I will try to help out with it ;) - I see you have an appimage version which should be quite easy to transform into AUR. We did so for Jitsi-Meet recently like so https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=jitsi-meet-electron

[johannesjo]

It would be great having the app available for arch without me having to care about it!! :D

I'll try to have a look at #213 tomorrow.

[tiotrom]

Ok I think it is already added... https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity - interesting that I could not find it. It si great to see that!

[johannesjo]

Ah yes, now I remember. @Morganamilo maintains that (thanks again btw! :)).

Last update was quite a while ago though. Maybe there is a possibility to automate this somehow.

[tiotrom]

There is another version, git, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity-git - probably it takes the latest build from git, right? That's more automated as far as I understand.

[tiotrom]

Unfortunately none of the versions work....I reported them to their respective AUR pages...

[johannesjo]

Thank you!

Let's give @Morganamilo some time to respond. It might be better to work on an automated solution (travis is already configured) for the releases in the long run though.

[johannesjo]

@tiotrom it seems like @Morganamilo is not responding. I've not experience with AUR whatsover. Would you maybe help me to prepare publishing my own package? The other 2 are not up to date and I really would like to automate the process.

[tiotrom]

Unfortunately I cannot :( - I don't have the technical ability to do it nor the time. I am very sorry...

[zajca]

Hi there is guide for publishing packages to aur https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines
in the end it's just git repository.

Here is simple PKGBUILD file which I created. It will use deb package release. I did not try depends since I have lot of stuff in my PC and did not time to test this (it works on my computer, you know :D ).

pkgname=super-productivity
pkgver=2.13.14
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='To Do List / Time Tracker with Jira Integration.'
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://super-productivity.com/"
license=('MIT')
# depends=('gtk2' 'libxss' 'gconf' 'nss' 'nspr' 'libnotify' 'libappindicator'
#     'libxtst' 'alsa-lib' 'xprintidle')
source=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/releases/download/v${pkgver}/superProductivity_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
md5sums=('6c1ab24314f250efaf3e6514d66eecd7')

package() {
    msg2 "Extracting the data.tar.xz..."
    bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir/"
    mkdir "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin
    ln -s "${pkgdir}"/opt/superProductivity/superproductivity "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/
    chmod +x "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/superproductivity
}

[tiotrom]

@zajca Nice. Would you be able to post it to AUR?

[johannesjo]

Thank you @zajca. I look into it once I have a little bit more time on my hands (Makes sense to include this directly into the build process). Probably next weekend or so.

[johannesjo]

Wow I am already pretty annoyed by this. I can't get past their ridiculous captcha, because apparently my output from LC_ALL=C pacman -V|sed -r 's#[0-9]+#fca#g'|md5sum|cut -c1-6 is not what they expect, most likely due to the output of pacman -V being different from what they expect.

[jackhistoria]

Maybe there are more people on Arch than you expect when this works since pacman and the AUR are real timesavers :)

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
error: failed retrieving file 'yarn-1.21.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.neostrada.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'yarn-1.21.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.snt.utwente.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'yarn-1.21.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.nluug.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'yarn-1.21.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.koddos.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Error installing repo packages

I have the talent to bite through problems like this and succeed most of the time and since I would like to use this app in 2020 a lot along with arch at home and on my cloud server and would like to try and figure it out for you - else I would put a new AUR rep up and merge it afterwards - but that doesn't seem necessary. Let me know what you think and happy new year btw.

[jvalecillos]

I have updated the packages in AUR fixing the build for both of them:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity-git/

But install the latest version (or the git version in the case of the later).

Go and be productive! :smile:

[johannesjo]

@jvalecillos that's great! Thank you very much!

[tiotrom]

Thank you sir! Much appreciated!

[madjoe]

I have updated the packages in AUR fixing the build for both of them:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/superproductivity-git/

@jvalecillos : Thanks for the contribution. Unfortunately, there's still an error whilst installing any of the packages from AUR:
https://hastebin.com/edinohujeb.coffeescript

[jvalecillos]

Thanks for the heads up @madjoe

The issue happened because Arch uses the latest version of Electron and that was incompatible with the version 5.1.2 of the app. I have updated/fixed both packages now and bumped to the latest version (5.4.2). It should be fine now.

[johannesjo]

@jvalecillos oh alright. Should I give you a heads up when I am updating electron in the future?

[madjoe]

@jvalecillos: Thanks, it works now! :)

@johannesjo: Great app, I really like the overall look and feel of it.

[jvalecillos]

@jvalecillos oh alright. Should I give you a heads up when I am updating electron in the future?

Only if you want, people can report issues in AUR website. I could have used the Electron version declared in the package.json and download it during build time, but I decided to use the one from the system (Arch) to speed up the build and the binary smaller (since it doesn't have to embed Electron).

I'm subscribing to the notifications for releases so I can follow up. I think you can close the issue now @johannesjo.

[johannesjo]

@jvalecillos alright. Thank you for actively maintaining the AUR package! I appreciate it!