Request for Updating the AUR Package with the Latest Binary Release

[theSprog]

Hello, the-way team

I am an user of the-way and I greatly appreciate the work you've put into developing and maintaining this tool. It has significantly improved my workflow, and I believe many others in the Arch Linux community feel the same.

I noticed that the AUR package for the-way ([the-way-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/the-way-git/)) is currently pointing to an older version of the software. The last commit to the AUR package was made about 2 years ago, which means Arch Linux users are not benefiting from the latest features and improvements you've implemented since then.

Given the recent updates and enhancements you've made to the-way, I kindly request if you could update the AUR package, or possibly create a new AUR package for the latest binary release. This would make it much easier for Arch Linux users to install and enjoy the latest version of the-way.

Thank you for considering this request, and thank you again for your contributions to the open-source community through your work on the-way.

[Ninjani]

Great to hear that you find it useful!

The AUR package was meant to be up to date with the latest tagged commit on master from what I understood.

@spikecodes is there something to change to make this up to date again?

[spikecodes]

Hey! I found out my script to update the versions automatically doesn't actually work because the AUR requires an external script to update the PKGBUILD files for each package. I unfortunately don't have the time to maintain the AUR packages that I used to but I unlisted myself from the package maintainer list so that others can now adopt them.

If you login to the AUR and visit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/the-way-git, you'll see the "Adopt Package" option on the right sidebar which will let you set the pkgver variable (in the PKGBUILD) to the latest version number from GitHub Releases.

This is the only change needed to keep it synced to GitHub. Alternatively, you could setup a simple CI script to automate this from GitHub Actions.

[theSprog]

Hey! I found out my script to update the versions automatically doesn't actually work because the AUR requires an external script to update the PKGBUILD files for each package. I unfortunately don't have the time to maintain the AUR packages that I used to but I unlisted myself from the package maintainer list so that others can now adopt them.

If you login to the AUR and visit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/the-way-git, you'll see the "Adopt Package" option on the right sidebar which will let you set the pkgver variable (in the PKGBUILD) to the latest version number from GitHub Releases.

This is the only change needed to keep it synced to GitHub. Alternatively, you could setup a simple CI script to automate this from GitHub Actions.

sure, I download the Git Clone URL and modified the pkgver to 0.20.3, and the I makepkg，but I got this error：

      /usr/sbin/ld: /mnt/c/Users/fan/Desktop/the-way-git/src/the-way/target/release/deps/the_way-be0228cc1a6a0fe5: hidden symbol `ring_core_0_17_7_OPENSSL_ia32cap_P' isn't defined
      /usr/sbin/ld: final link failed: bad value
      collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

= note: some extern functions couldn't be found; some native libraries may need to be installed or have their path specified
= note: use the -l flag to specify native libraries to link
= note: use the cargo:rustc-link-lib directive to specify the native libraries to link with Cargo (see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html#rustc-link-lib)

But when I downloaded the source code and compiled it，it built fine!
I am an aur rookie so maybe I do something wrong along the way😥

[spikecodes]

Hmm, not sure for that one. Maybe look for a Rust-specific guide to packaging for the AUR? Or perhaps ask ChatGPT/Claude.

[theSprog]

Hmm, not sure for that one. Maybe look for a Rust-specific guide to packaging for the AUR? Or perhaps ask ChatGPT/Claude.

Indeed, it is weird. When I makepkg -si directly I get this error, but when I cd src/the-way and then cargo build --locked --release everything works fine. build() function is written like this, I didn't change it and it looks working fine:
build() {
cd "${_pkgname}"
cargo build --locked --release
}

I'm not sure what's wrong with this, or if it's a bug in makepkg ?