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Hi @ogarcia

Thank you for your suggestion! I've heard of uv but didn't get to play around with it yet. I'll give this a try as soon as time permits :)

Hi @spookfish first of all, I am not a salt user, I just came here because of the topic I have seen on the mailing lists that the package is going to be officially abandoned because of the problem with Python. That said, I just came to tell you that you might be more comfortable using uv to create the package. It would be something like this (I put only the most relevant):

makedepends=('rsync' 'uv')

# create the venv environment into which we will install Salt
uv venv -p 3.10.15 "${onedir}"

# Install salt into the relenv environment
# Note: This must be an absolute path, otherwise pip interprets it as pkg name
uv pip install "${srcdir}/salt-${pkgver}" --directory "${onedir}"
# Add additional python deps for Salt
if [[ -n ${SALT_ADDITIONAL_PIP_PACKAGES} ]]; then
  uv pip install ${SALT_ADDITIONAL_PIP_PACKAGES} --directory "${onedir}"
fi

If you already know uv or have already thought about it, forget what I said, if not, keep an eye on it as you may be able to create the package much faster (and the good thing is that uv is an official Arch package).

Greetings.

Hi @StefanT,

Thank you for comment. Good to know that there is a relenv distribution for aarch64. I will update the supported architectures accordingly!

Regarding the makedepends: AUR packages assume base-devel is installed as prerequisite (ref: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites), which is why packages from that group are not listed in makedepends.

I installed the package on a fresh aarch64 system. It took quite some time to build but in the end it worked. Some things I noticed:

• these packages are missing in the makedepends: gcc, patch
• please add 'aarch64' to the supported architectures

Thank you for providing salt-onedir!