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\Ok, I think I know what's happening: the patch is supposed to find this chunk of code at line 432 in aml-flash-tool/flash-tool:

 print_debug ""
 print_debug "Parsing image configuration files"
 print_debug "---------------------------------"
 source /etc/lsb-release
 if linux-version compare $DISTRIB_RELEASE ge 19.10; then
     platform_conf_name=`awk '/sub_type="platform"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`
     print_debug "platform_conf_name  = $platform_conf_name"
     ddr_filename=`awk '/sub_type="DDR"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`

And change it to

 print_debug ""
 print_debug "Parsing image configuration files"
 print_debug "---------------------------------"
 # source /etc/lsb-release
 if echo "BTW, I use Arch" >> /dev/null 2>&1; then
     platform_conf_name=`awk '/sub_type="platform"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`
     print_debug "platform_conf_name  = $platform_conf_name"
     ddr_filename=`awk '/sub_type="DDR"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`

But last week, 2025-03-24, commit fcf0458 changed that chunk to line 435 and altered it to

 print_debug ""
 print_debug "Parsing image configuration files"
 print_debug "---------------------------------"

 if [ -e /etc/lsb-release ]; then
     source /etc/lsb-release
 fi

 if [ $host_os = Linux ] && linux-version compare $DISTRIB_RELEASE ge 19.10; then
     platform_conf_name=`awk '/sub_type="platform"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`
     print_debug "platform_conf_name  = $platform_conf_name"
     ddr_filename=`awk '/sub_type="DDR"/{gsub("file=","",$1); gsub(/"/,"",$1); print $1}' $tmp_dir/image.cfg`

So I found a workaround: in 0001-BTW_I-use-Arch.patch, change

...
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@
...
-source /etc/lsb-release
-if linux-version compare $DISTRIB_RELEASE ge 19.10; then
...

to

...
@@ -435,12 +435,8 @@
...
-
-if [ -e /etc/lsb-release ]; then
-       source /etc/lsb-release
-fi
-
-if [ $host_os = Linux ] && linux-version compare $DISTRIB_RELEASE ge 19.10; then
...

Then you have to change the patch's sha256sum in PKGBUILD from

...
            'd9a1e81742452298b4181470a3791910c781fdbfaba55c301cb9578a165c61f6')
...

to

...
            '7d7f0fb50632ff1afa8f7683830921e29bbcdd90518ea2c5e0c11f0c15e0e878')
...

At last, just run makepkg -si as usual and it will compile.

Now can someone who understand this better check if this is correct? And if it is, incorporate it into the package? Otherwise, how can we message the package maintainer to fix this?

Sorry for the long post and thank you very much.

I'm having the same problem as @dongfengweixiao, makepkg -si fails with:

==> Starting prepare()...
patching file aml-flash-tool/flash-tool
Hunk #1 FAILED at 432.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file aml-flash-tool/flash-tool.rej
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

Can somebody please help?

patching file aml-flash-tool/flash-tool Hunk #1 FAILED at 432. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file aml-flash-tool/flash-tool.rej

@snackattack I think it's a good idea, so I use the aml-update script to wrap the update command[1].

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=aml-flash-tool&id=6ae592d5752cfb0a7faf15c927be030b4a64adb8

Thanks for this package. I used it to successfully unlock the bootloader of my dynalink androidtv box, following [1].

Note that I used /usr/lib/aml-flash-tool/tools/linux-x86/update to do this, which is installed by the package, but not in PATH. Maybe it would be worth adding a wrapper script to run it, similar to aml-flash-tool.sh.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/official-unofficial-lineageos-20-for-amlogic-gxl-gxm-g12-sm1-ne-family-devices.4534935/page-12#post-88422605