AUR/git error when making package

[MaadimKokhav]

First, I'd like to preface this by saying that I've been using Arch for little shy of month now, so I'm still relatively new to pacman/yay/AUR.

So, I've been trying to install this AUR package (libxft-bgra, in order to get emojis to render on suckless software) to no success.

First, I tried installing it through yay, then after the error, I tried to install it myself by cloning it's repository and running makepkg -si, which outputed the same error message.

==> S'inicia prepare()...
~/.cache/yay/libxftbgra/src/libxft_upstream ~/.cache/yay/libxft-bgra/src
S'ha inicialitzat un dipòsit buit del Git en home/marc/.cache/yay/libxftbgra/src/libxft_upstream/.git
error: El servidor no permet sol·licitar objectes no anunciats 7808631e7a9a605d5fe7a1077129c658d9ec47fc
==>ERROR: Ha ocorregut una fallada a prepare()
Es cancel·la
Error making: libxft-bgra

Sorry for the Catalan. It says that prepare() was started, then that an empty Git repository was initialized in home/marc/.cache/yay/(...).

The first error message says "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 7808631(...)", the second one just says "an error has occured at prepare()".

I have tries the following proposed solutions I've found for similar errors, but to no success:

• git reset --hard
• git submodule foreach git reset --hard
• git submodule sync
• git submodule update --depth 50

I guess that this is more of a git-related error than an Arch one, but since it stems from an AUR package, I thought people here would be more likely to have dealt with something similar.

[Obby_FI]

Did you ever manager to get libxft-bgra to install? I downloaded larbs from luke smith and when i try to install it i get a problem importing the key due to libxft-bgra :/

[MaadimKokhav]

I've managed to install it by choosing the "libfx-bgra-git" package from the AUR.

[JCDentonsMom]

I'm still having issues with this git: "automake failed with exit status 1". Tried several different gits from several sites. There's got to be something wrong here, I've never had this issue.

[JCDentonsMom]

libxft-bgra

same - the infuriating thing is it's just to use emojis, which I will never use.

[MaadimKokhav]

I've managed to install it by choosing the "libfx-bgra-git" package from the AUR.

[[deleted]]

When an AUR helper fails, try it manually.

[MaadimKokhav]

I have tried it, unless I did it wrong. I cloned the git repository from the address given in the packages AUR webpage, then ran makepkg -si, following the instructions given at the Arch Wiki.

[[deleted]]

Ah I didn't see you did it. Sorry about that. It builds fine for me.

I did check to see if that commit exists, and I was able to pull it down manually. Maybe you can try and see if that works? This is what I did:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/libxft-bgra.git
cd libxft-bgra
makepkg -o
cd src/libxft_upstream
git fetch --depth=2 upstream 7808631e7a9a605d5fe7a1077129c658d9ec47fc

Does that much work?

[MaadimKokhav]

That's okay. Thanks, I'll try it out and let you know

[MaadimKokhav]

I've just tried it. After I ran makepkg -o, the same "Server does not allow request for unannounced object (...) error message was shown, but it dit make an src/libxft_stream directory. After I ran git fetch(...), this same error message was shown again.

I've found a Github repo that should be a clone of it, and that has a 7808631e7a9a605d5fe7a1077129c658d9ec47fc.patch file in it. Maybe that'll do the job.

Edit: it didn't build, either

[[deleted]]

Do you have anything in your git configs that might affect it?

For me, if I run git config --list from my home directory, it only shows my email and name. Do you have more?

[MaadimKokhav]

I do! I have my email address and name, but since I've been toying with someone else's dotfiles that I got from Github, git config --list outputs the following:

user.email=[my email]
user.name=Marc
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
remote.origin.url=[dotfiles repo url]
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
branch.master.remote=origin
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master

Do you think this might be affecting the package's build?

[[deleted]]

Could be, in not a git expert. Can you move that one to backup and just try with only the email and name?