techcable/aur-dis4irc

Moved to Techcable/archlinux-packages

dis4irc-aur

This is an unoffical AUR package for Dis4IRC

It creates an isolated user and includes a systemd unit file. It downloads the binary instead of compiling it (see below).

It is in no way endorsed by upstream, so make sure you can distinguish between their bugs and ours ;)

Mirrored to Github at Techcable/archlinux-packages, managed with git-subrepo.

PRs and issues are welcome.

Why precompiled binaries

This package uses precompiled jar files, but does not have the traditional -bin suffix in its name.

This is because the Java packaging guidelines say "You do not need to compile Java applications from source" (See wiki).

This is common practice even in the official Java packages. For example jenkins just downloads the offical jar and checks the hash.

Compiling from source would require installing gradle (or using the wrapper) and take much longer.

aur-dis4irc's Issues

Figure out how to automatically mirror AUR

How do all the cool kids do it?

In general, I might want to have git repositories mirrored every push. Maybe I should write some sort of build hook......

Need to be more careful to wait for networking to startup

Immediately after startup, Dis4IRC makes a connection to discord.com.

Using the systemd service file, I very frequently get issues connecting with "name resolution":
https://gist.github.com/Techcable/183d6b3752eb90fe897052a91af21370

We need to inform systemd to wait until networking has been fully setup before starting the service. There should be something about "depends on networking" or something.

On a related issue, Dis4IRC recovers poorly if connection is lost with discord.com