openvpn3 no longer installable after yay update

SparkyTD · 2024-09-13 15:47:50

I haven't done a full yay update in about a week, so I decided to do one today. Unfortunately though, out of the ~100 packages that were updated, the single package that had to break was openvpn3, one of my most important programs that I use every day for work. I tried everything I could think of, including trying to reinstall it several times, clearing yay caches (yay -Scc / yay -Sc), doing multiple updates, and installing the "-git" version. The latter gives a different set of random C++ compilation errors. I also tried going to the AUR page, downloading older PKGBUILD tars and installing them manually with "makepkg -si", but again, the installation always fails with the same errors.

Based on the output of the command "yay -S openvpn3" (linked below), it looks like the error happens during something related to "bash-completion" which is even more frustrating, since I do not even use that feature, nor do I care about it. The error seems to stem from a python exception during the build process: "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'openvpn3.constants'", but I have no idea what to do about it.

Output of "yay -S openvpn3": https://pastebin.com/raw/PLmbhBz9
Output of "yay -S openvpn3-git": https://pastebin.com/raw/bLsQUc4t

Any help is appreciated!

WorMzy · 2024-09-13 16:08:57

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

philo · 2024-09-13 17:29:06

Did you read the web page of the package?

SparkyTD · 2024-09-13 17:35:11

philo wrote:

Did you read the web page of the package?

I've read some comments on the top of the AUR page suggesting solutions to potential build issues, like "yay -Scc" / "yay -Sc", but none of those comments have been helpful so far.

If you mean OpenVPN3's official website, I can't see any information there that is relevant to my issue.

philo · 2024-09-13 17:41:30

Yes, I meant the AUR page. You can post there for help with your issue.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-09-16 12:08:54

The error comes from executing the check()) function.

makepkg has an option --nocheck to disable running that function, use that.
Sorry, no idea how to tell yay to not run check().

SparkyTD · 2024-09-16 14:10:10

Lone_Wolf wrote:

The error comes from executing the check()) function.
makepkg has an option --nocheck to disable running that function, use that.
Sorry, no idea how to tell yay to not run check().

Thanks this is already helpful, because I can just grab the latest tar from the AUR, and run "makepkg -si --nocheck" manually.

But the truth is, that over the past couple of days I've already written my own openvpn session manager daemon as my very first Rust project, so I will probably be using that one instead of openvpn3. At least if anything positive came out of this, it's that I finally started learning Rust which I've been meaning to do for months lol.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-09-17 10:24:07

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#1 2024-09-13 15:47:50

openvpn3 no longer installable after yay update

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