Arch Linux User Repository

If you have suggestions for changes, feel free to open a MR against the arrpc branch of https://gitlab.archlinux.org/freso/arrpc

doesn't install correctly, changing the pkgbuild to what k1f0 suggested below spits out a 0kb package that doesn't work.

This currently doesn't build due to upstream not being a packed npm package yet. We need to manually do that. Below works fine for me.

+build() {
+  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+  rm -rf .github/
+  npm install
+  npm pack
+}
+
 package() {
+  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
   npm install --cache "${srcdir}/npm-cache" \
     -g --prefix "${pkgdir}/usr" \
-    "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
-
-  install -D -m644 "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
-  install -D -m644 arrpc.service "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/user/arrpc.service"
+    "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tgz"
+  install -D -m644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
+  install -D -m644 ../arrpc.service "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/user/arrpc.service"
 }

I'm not sure what pm2 does or is needed? Either way I see that it's available in the official repos as well. But even just running npm install inside the cloned repository and then node src will start arrpc without it immediatelly failing.

So I guess this package needs to be updated to the current commit and remove the patches. Should the package be marked as out-of-date then?

Cloning the github project and running it from there seems to work just fine but the aur package as of now is fully broken. For now here is a solution to run arrpc on your pc and on startup.

Step 1: Install pm2 and start arRPC

cd arrpc
npm install pm2
./node_modules/.bin/pm2 start src

Step 2: Create a systemd service file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/arrpc.service

[Unit]
Description=arRPC Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /path/to/arrpc/src
Restart=always
User=<your-user-name>
Group=<your-group-name>
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/arrpc

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then run the following commands:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable arrpc
sudo systemctl start arrpc
sudo systemctl status arrpc

If you encounter an error, run pm2 logs --no-daemon and check the log for errors. If you see ER_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT, edit package.json and add "type": "commonjs" under "main": "src/index.js".

Thanks for the package!

I noticed the post install instruction "systemd enable --user --now arrpc.service" should be systemctl instead.

Thanks again!

@micwoj92 Theoretically yes, but upstream doesn’t seem to keep the releases up to date there: https://www.npmjs.com/package/arrpc?activeTab=versions (no 3.2.0, and some older versions are also missing)

Is it possible to change to download from npmjs? that way git makedep could be dropped.