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aur package

See original GitHub issue

could you please create a package in aur that people who are working with yaourt package manager can install and update it automatically?

there is already a package for this but its version is old

https://aur.archlinux.org

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:19 (6 by maintainers)

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alyyassercommented, Jun 29, 2018

maybe someone need this, here’s modified version of PKGBUILD that i used to install the latest version from this repo

_pkgname='github-desktop'
pkgname="${_pkgname}"
pkgver=1.2.6
gitname="release-${pkgver//_/-}"
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GUI for managing Git and GitHub."
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://desktop.github.com"
license=('MIT')
depends=('gnome-keyring' 'git' 'electron' 'nodejs' 'libcurl-compat' 'libcurl-gnutls')
optdepends=('hub: CLI interface for GitHub.')
makedepends=('libcurl-openssl-1.0' 'xorg-server-xvfb' 'yarn' 'python2' 'nvm')
DLAGENTS=("http::/usr/bin/git clone --branch ${gitname} --single-branch %u")
source=(
  git+https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop.git#tag=${gitname}
  ${_pkgname}.desktop
)
sha256sums=(
  'SKIP'
  be057e4a392e64760f7a40203ac886b7cf5551de254ad55c706376dca8aa4341
)
build() {
  cd desktop
  unset npm_config_prefix
  source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh
  nvm install --lts  
  nvm use --lts
  export DISPLAY=':99.0'
  Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
  yarn install
  yarn build:prod
  nvm deactivate
}
package() {
  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
  cp -r --preserve=mode desktop/dist/desktop-linux-x64/* "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/"
  printf '#!/bin/sh\n\nLD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 /opt/github-desktop/desktop "$@"\n' | install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/github-desktop"
  install -Dm644 "${_pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
  install -Dm644 "desktop/app/static/logos/1024x1024.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
  install -Dm644 "desktop/app/static/logos/512x512.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
  install -Dm644 "desktop/app/static/logos/256x256.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
}

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shiftkeycommented, Jul 22, 2018

I’m going to close this out for now because this is a community-based effort, and I don’t want to come in over the top and add more problems while things are being figured out. But let me know if this still isn’t resolved in a few months and we can revisit it.

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