-> Missing AUR Packages: yad-eos

arcDaniel · December 16, 2022, 12:20pm

I got this message, an the package is only installed locally.

Is this package now obsolete for eos? Replaced? Can I only uninstall it?

thx,
Daniel

anthony93 · December 16, 2022, 12:48pm

Aur? yad-eos is in endeavouros’s repo. What distro are you using?

$ pacman -Ss yad-eos
endeavouros/yad-eos 12.1-1.1 [installed]
    A fork of zenity - display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

There are other packages with similar names in the AUR though, and another yad in the community repo.

$ yay -Ss yad
aur/yad-git 9267829-1 (+1 0.00)
    A fork of zenity - display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line
community/yad 12.1-1 (209.3 KiB 613.4 KiB)
    A fork of zenity - display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

You can uninstall it if no other packages depend on it. AFAIK, a package called eos-bash-shared requires it.

arcDaniel · December 16, 2022, 12:55pm

I’m on eos with endeavouros repo enabled but that package is missing there

edit: just did a -Syu an it seems to be back. So problem solved.

thx

mardi · December 16, 2022, 1:29pm

I also got that message when was updating. -Syu didn’t helped but after I ranked mirrors update went normally.

manuel · December 16, 2022, 3:01pm

~~Package yad-eos was removed today from our repo, and now the official yad from Arch can/should be used.~~
Sorry about the above.

yad-eos was updated today. But now yad-eos can be replaced with the yad package from Arch.

kiamlaluno · December 16, 2022, 5:07pm

eos-bash-shared still requires yad-eos and eos-bash-shared is required from other EOS tools. Can those tools be removed without loosing necessary features?

anthony93 · December 16, 2022, 5:16pm

You can use pactree to list out all the packages that depend on yad-eos.

$ pactree -r yad-eos
yad-eos
└─eos-bash-shared
  ├─eos-log-tool
  ├─eos-rankmirrors
  └─reflector-simple

Personally, I would keep the eos tools.

ricklinux · December 16, 2022, 5:25pm

Yes but they all run with yad?

manuel · December 16, 2022, 5:25pm

eos-bash-shared is a requirement by many EndeavourOS packages.
So if you want to remove eos-bash-shared, then you will lose many EndeavourOS packages, like (in alphabetical order)

akm
eos-apps-info
eos-log-tool
eos-rankmirrors
eos-update-notifier
reflector-simple
welcome

However, Arch packages are not affected.

anthony93 · December 16, 2022, 5:29pm

I must have misunderstood @kiamlaluno’s question. Because he asked about yad-eos, so I’m assuming that he hasn’t yet run the latest upgrade? Because if he had, yad-eos would have been replaced by yad already.

Pudge · December 16, 2022, 5:44pm

As of right now, yad-eos is still in the EndeavourOS x86_64 package repository.

Also as of right now, The endeavouros repository is listed first in /etc/pacman.conf

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

[endeavouros]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist

#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

So the only way an update could replace yad-eos with yad would be with a statement in the PKGBUILD stating yad-eos and yad are conflicting.

github.com

endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/blob/master/yad-eos/PKGBUILD

#!/bin/bash

# Maintainer: EndeavourOS-Team <info@endeavouros.com>

# Latest yad release with a patch.

_yad-eos_prepare() {
    local orig_name=yad
    local apply_patch=no       # yes = apply patch, no = do not apply patch

    curl -Lsm 10 -o PKGBUILD.orig https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/raw/packages/$orig_name/trunk/PKGBUILD || exit 1

    # keep the original pkgname in PKGBUILD for building a package
    sed -i PKGBUILD.orig -e 's|${pkgname}|'$orig_name'|'

    # patch the dialog height issue, see https://sourceforge.net/p/yad-dialog/tickets/322/#6f2d
    if [ "$apply_patch" = "yes" ] ; then
        sed -i PKGBUILD.orig -e '/autoreconf -ivf/i \  # patch for the dialog height issue\n  patch -u src/main.c -i ../../yad-github-issue-107.patch\n'
    fi

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I am not sure what the following lines un the PKGBUILD do, but I don’t think this replaces yad-eos with yad. @manuel would have yo answer this.

    # Take care of conflicting packages:
    conflicts=($orig_name ${orig_name}-git)
    provides=($orig_name)

Pudge

manuel · December 16, 2022, 5:57pm

Yeah, there have been a couple of changes today related to yad and yad-eos. The plan is to override the yad package from Arch to make it simpler to use than having a package yad-eos.

The idea with an overridden package is to add a patch into yad to handle an issue of adding unnecessary height to windows implemented using the yad tool. And the plan is to remove the overriding package if/when the yad devs add a fix to this issue.

The following shows the line (45) that replaces yad-eos with endeavouros/yad:

github.com

endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/blob/2b66d2ea37c81630770f85de098e0943478b2ee0/yad/PKGBUILD#L45


      
              if [ "$apply_patch" = "yes" ] ; then
                  # update pkgrel because of this patch
                  source+=($url/yad-github-issue-107.patch)
                  pkgrel="$pkgrel".1
          
          
        # Take care of conflicting packages:
                  conflicts=($orig_name ${orig_name}-git)
                  provides=($orig_name)
              else
                  # now the patched yad package is called 'yad' again, so if yad-eos is installed, replace it.
                  replaces=(yad-eos)
              fi
          
          
    # Add architectures
              arch+=('aarch64' 'armv7h')
          }
          
          
_yad-eos_prepare
          unset -f _yad-eos_prepare

You may see that the patch is not included in this package version. It seems there’s no need for the patch anymore, but I will keep the overriding yad version just in case more testing shows that the issue still exists.

So please keep reporting if you still see unnecessarily high yad windows with any of the EndeavourOS apps (that use yad).

Pudge · December 16, 2022, 6:03pm

Earlier today I did an -Syu update and it didn’t list anything about yad-eos or yad and yad-eos was still installed.

I just did another -Syu update and it did replace yad-eos with yad.

:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace yad-eos with endeavouros/yad? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...

Please excuse me that I was little behind on what was going on.

Pudge

manuel · December 16, 2022, 6:05pm

No worries mate! Seems that for some reason your link to PKGBUILD is about 4 hours older than mine… which explains the code difference, but not why it is so much older.

Pudge · December 16, 2022, 6:11pm

It takes a little while for the Pony Express to get to Colorado. Except today it is Comcast instead of the Pony Express, but the results are about the same.

Pudge

kiamlaluno · December 16, 2022, 8:53pm

I apologize: I was referring to this sentence.

yad-eos was updated today. But now yad-eos can be replaced with the yad package from Arch.

There are EOS tools that require yad-eos; if I replace it with yad, I should remove them. That’s why I asked if removing those tools I lose “important” functionality.

kiamlaluno · December 16, 2022, 8:58pm

I updated earlier, but yad-eos wasn’t replaced. I ran yay -Syu now, and it got replaced. (I didn’t see any EOS tools being removed, though.)

manuel · December 16, 2022, 9:04pm

Yes, latest endeavouros/yad is meant to replace yad-eos.

The endeavouros mirrors get the latest packages at different times, which is how mirrors work, and that’s why users get the latest packages at different times.

system · December 18, 2022, 9:05pm

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