Checked what the AUR actually requires rather than relying on my earlier
assumption. The submission guidelines say only that packages using prebuilt
deliverables must carry the -bin suffix; nothing requires the binary to come
from upstream, so -bin is correct and sufficient here.
There is no formal 'unofficial binary' flag, so disclose it where users look:
an explicit PROVENANCE block in the PKGBUILD comment header naming the tag,
commit, build recipe and release URL, plus '(prebuilt binary)' in pkgdesc.
Corrects the README, which overstated the risk of a maintainer objecting.
Bundling R alone was not enough: R links libicuuc, and Arch moves ICU
regularly. The obvious fix - pinning 'icu>=78 <79' in depends - is worse
than the disease on a rolling distro, because pacman would then refuse to
upgrade ICU while JASP is installed, blocking the user's whole system
upgrade until a rebuild lands.
So bundle-libs.sh copies every non-system shared library into
/opt/jasp-desktop/lib and rewrites rpaths, by denylist rather than
allowlist. depends now carries no version constraints at all.
Qt6 stays system-provided on purpose - Qt is binary compatible across Qt 6
minors, and bundling QtWebEngine would add ~500 MB. That also means the
only rebuild triggers left are a new JASP release and a Qt major bump;
rebuilding for anything else would cost users a 1.7 GB re-download.
Also fixes check-upstream.py querying only repo=Extra, which silently
returned nothing for icu (it lives in core).
Two bugs found by the first real build:
- 'R --version | head -1' aborted the script with exit 141 under
'set -o pipefail': head closes the pipe and R dies of SIGPIPE. Use
'sed -n 1p', which consumes all input.
- R installed to lib64/R, not the lib/R the script assumed. Pin --libdir
and ask 'R RHOME' for the real path instead of guessing.
Also stop exporting R_HOME. R.cmake warns that a set R_HOME makes R emit
'WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME', which corrupts the output
cmake parses; CUSTOM_R_PATH is the supported way to select an R.
Arch ships R 4.6.1, but JASP pins its R packages against a frozen CRAN
snapshot (2026-03-31 for 0.98.1) that targets R 4.5. Configuring against
Arch's R fails at Rcpp 1.1.1, which cannot compile on R 4.6 since
R_NamespaceRegistry was removed; the Rcpp release that fixes it is newer
than the pinned snapshot, so the lockfile cannot reach it either.
Build R 4.5.3 into /opt/jasp-desktop/R and point R_HOME at it, matching
what upstream CI does. This drops 'r' from depends entirely, so an Arch R
upgrade can no longer break an installed JASP, and the rebuild triggers
become Qt6 and ICU - the libraries actually still linked against.
Reuse the established conventions rather than inventing new ones: the
AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY secret name, pushing from an archlinux:base-devel
job container instead of docker-in-docker, and the existing git identity.
The AUR job only needs the PKGBUILD, so the 1.5 GB tarball never crosses
a job boundary - it goes straight to GitHub Releases from the build job.
Also correct the Gitea job-timeout setting name to ENDLESS_TASK_TIMEOUT.
Upstream JASP ships no Linux binary, so the existing AUR package builds
everything from source including several hundred R packages. This builds
that once in CI and publishes the result as jasp-desktop-bin.
JASP links against the system R and Qt6 rather than bundling them, so a
rebuild is triggered by an Arch r/qt6-base bump as well as by a new JASP
release, and the generated PKGBUILD pins depends to the versions actually
built against.
agw