bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5
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Follow-up to 8a8b2b1, driven by what run 2872's new checks actually printed.
The .deb verification did its job on its first run: tauri already infers
exactly libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 + libgtk-3-0, so declaring the same two in
tauri.conf.json produced a control file listing each of them twice. Removed
the declaration — verify.sh is the real guard, and it fails the build if
inference ever stops covering what the binary links.
The pacman step revealed ci-tauri carries neither zstd nor bsdtar, so packages
currently ship as .pkg.tar.xz with no .MTREE. Both are working outcomes
(pacman reads xz; only `pacman -Qkk` needs .MTREE), but the docs promised
.zst, so the README, the release notes and ci-requirements.md now describe
what the build actually produces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
ThoughtSync desktop — Arch package
A prebuilt native pacman package, published as an asset on every ThoughtSync release. Nothing to compile, no toolchain to install.
Installing natively on Arch matters for more than tidiness: pacman pulls
webkit2gtk-4.1 itself and the app runs against your system's graphics stack,
which is what keeps the bundled-library EGL_BAD_PARAMETER black window
(issue 2021) from coming back. It also means the app is package-manager tracked
and uninstalls cleanly.
Install
Easiest — the one-command installer picks this package automatically on any pacman system:
curl -fsSL https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/thoughtsync/raw/branch/main/desktop/packaging/install.sh | sh
Or grab the .pkg.tar.* from the
latest release
and install it directly:
sudo pacman -U thoughtsync-desktop-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.*
The compression suffix depends on what the build image provides — .zst when
zstd is installed, otherwise .xz (today's builds are .xz). pacman reads
all of them; only the filename differs.
Either way you get:
/usr/bin/thoughtsync— the app/usr/share/applications/thoughtsync.desktop— the menu entry/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/thoughtsync.png— themed icons
Launch ThoughtSync from your app menu, or run thoughtsync.
Uninstall: sudo pacman -R thoughtsync-desktop.
How the package is built
package-prebuilt.sh runs in CI (.forgejo/workflows/desktop.yml) and wraps the
binary the Linux build already produced into a pacman package — it does not
compile anything a second time.
Packaging a Debian-compiled binary for Arch is safe here because the binary
bundles nothing: it resolves libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0, libgtk-3.so.0 and
libsoup-3.0.so.0 by SONAME at runtime and those are identical on both distros,
SQLite is compiled in (rusqlite "bundled"), and glibc's forward compatibility
means building on Debian's older glibc and running on Arch's newer one is the
safe direction.
CI is Debian and has no pacman, so it cannot install-test the result. The build
step instead logs the package's .PKGINFO and complete file listing, so the
package is auditable from the run log; a real pacman -U is the final proof.
Previously
This directory used to hold a source-build PKGBUILD requiring makepkg -si
with rust + nodejs + npm installed. It was removed once prebuilt packages
shipped — asking every user to install a compiler toolchain isn't distribution.