Archlinux community TemplateVM upgrade error after recent dom0 update

[pugege]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.2): R3.2

Affected TemplateVMs (e.g., fedora-23, if applicable):

archlinux community templatevm

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Expected behavior:

usual pacman sync and upgrade

Actual behavior:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

pacman -Syu

General notes:

normal sync and upgrade before recent dom0 upgrade, post dom0 upgrade;
(normal sync)

:: starting full system upgrade
resolving dependencies
looking for conflicting pkg
:: xorg-server and xf86-input-joystick are in conflict (X-ABI-XINPUT version)
remove xf86-input-joystick y/n: y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: qubes-vm-gui: installing xorg-server (1.19.1-1) breaks dependency 'xorg-server<1.19.0'

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Related issues:

[cryptix]

I'm also blocked on this.

We found out through some discussion and kind help by another volunteer (didn't get to test it myself) that if you bump the xorg dependency (not sure if it works but it seems to build) of the qubes-vm-gui package, you run into problems with pulseaudio.
Archlinux already uses pulseaudio version 10 and the headers need to be present in the source tree of qubes-gui-agent-linux/pulse.

I think the tangential overarching issue is, if we (the arch using qubes community) want to supply a binary repo for the qubes packages. Otherwise we have to individually go through rebuilding the templates which is quite a hassle imho.

[cryptix]

I'm also blocked on this.

We found out through some discussion and kind help by another volunteer (didn't get to test it myself) that if you bump the xorg dependency (not sure if it works but it seems to build) of the qubes-vm-gui package, you run into problems with pulseaudio.
Archlinux already uses pulseaudio version 10 and the headers need to be present in the source tree of qubes-gui-agent-linux/pulse.

I think the tangential overarching issue is, if we (the arch using qubes community) want to supply a binary repo for the qubes packages. Otherwise we have to individually go through rebuilding the templates which is quite a hassle imho.

[ptitdoc]

This has been fixed using the latest marmarek repo (qubes-vm-gui), or by using the binary packages if you have a repository pointing to my server:
[qubes-r3.2]
Server = http://olivier.medoc.free.fr/archlinux/current/

The documentation for the template has also been updated:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/archlinux/

[ptitdoc]

This has been fixed using the latest marmarek repo (qubes-vm-gui), or by using the binary packages if you have a repository pointing to my server:
[qubes-r3.2]
Server = http://olivier.medoc.free.fr/archlinux/current/

The documentation for the template has also been updated:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/archlinux/

[cryptix]

@ptitdoc I tried your repo but links don't work.. Hope your account wasn't suspended? 😭

I will try to rebuild my template with the new instructions.

[cryptix]

@ptitdoc I tried your repo but links don't work.. Hope your account wasn't suspended? 😭

I will try to rebuild my template with the new instructions.

[ptitdoc]

Hello, the link does not work only because directory listing is disabled.

If you add the following line to pacman.conf, this should work.

 [qubes-r3.2]
Server = http://olivier.medoc.free.fr/archlinux/current/

[ptitdoc]

Hello, the link does not work only because directory listing is disabled.

If you add the following line to pacman.conf, this should work.

 [qubes-r3.2]
Server = http://olivier.medoc.free.fr/archlinux/current/

[cryptix]

@ptitdoc ah.. okay. I was thrown off by the index being disabled and trying the URL from the template building docs (ending in /pkgs/) that also returns 404.

I tried your mirror and everything downloads and verifies except this one:

error: failed retrieving file qubes-vm-core-3.2.15-11-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz from olivier.medoc.free.fr : Maximum file size exceeded

[cryptix]

@ptitdoc ah.. okay. I was thrown off by the index being disabled and trying the URL from the template building docs (ending in /pkgs/) that also returns 404.

I tried your mirror and everything downloads and verifies except this one:

error: failed retrieving file qubes-vm-core-3.2.15-11-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz from olivier.medoc.free.fr : Maximum file size exceeded