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LoudLemur

@Kubernetes Well, thank you very much for saying so. There are so many applications I would love to be packaged. Have you looked through the AppWishList section of the forum? You might find some ideas.

I am glad it is becoming easier for you.

girish

@Kubernetes looking good! Are you able to remove the multi-build from the Dockerfile? I can look into publishing this afterwards.

Kubernetes

@girish switched to single stage build, did clean up, image is working on my cloudron. I think the package could be checked for publishing. user is still requred to be created manually with the manage.py command - description in the README.md

SORRY - BUILD IS BROKEN - I am looking into it

Kubernetes

I have to say, that I don't like uwsgi. The build of it did break the single stage image all the time. Finally I found a way to fix it by installing the latest uwsgi version, but not the one specified in the requirements.txt of the linkding project.

@girish please have a look at my repo. it seems to run fine on cloudron now, is single stage and after creating a user in terminal, the linkding app is usable.

Kubernetes

@LoudLemur For sure there are some Apps in the Wish List that I may pickup to package. But first I want to see the current work to get done. I usually don't want to have to many parallel streams at once.

LoudLemur

@Kubernetes said in LinkDing on Cloudron - Bookmarks Manage and Search:

@LoudLemur For sure there are some Apps in the Wish List that I may pickup to package. But first I want to see the current work to get done. I usually don't want to have to many parallel streams at once.

Excellent and good discipline. I am curious which Wish List Applications you might like.

marcusquinn

@Kubernetes You might find some of the AI tools interesting:

timconsidine

@marcusquinn he has packaged ChatPad which I think is better than chatbot-ui

Thanks for the posts on pinecone alternatives.
I can't get flowise working (even as standalone deployment), so maybe they will provide a solution.

Kubernetes

@girish just to let you know that Linkding is running without any problems since I packaged it...

LoudLemur

@Kubernetes said in LinkDing on Cloudron - Bookmarks Manage and Search:

@girish just to let you know that Linkding is running without any problems since I packaged it...

Excellent! Well done! I hope it wasn't too troublesome to accomplish and that it was satisfying.

Do you still have the desire to package? I hope so!

girish

@Kubernetes I forked the app to https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/linkding-app . You should have permissions.

I thought I will fix it but then thought I can help you along instead

First off, the app doesn't build. For example, it does COPY linkding/package.json linkding/package-lock.json ./ . Where are these files in the repo? I am guessing you had linkding checked out locally when building the app maybe. Instead you should do something like https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/changedetection-app/-/blob/master/Dockerfile#L9 . Also, see how the VERSION is pinned to a specific version of linkding.
Next, in bootstrap.sh , you have cp -nr /app/code/linkding/* /app/data/ . This is copying the code into data directory and now the code is also part of your backup. You should be able to run all the commands out of /app/code itself (which is readonly filesystem).
The apt is most likely redundant. The base image has all the libraries
There are actually two CMD . We can remove the HEALTHCHECK and the CMD immediately after, Cloudron does not use it.
You can rename bootstrap.sh to start.sh . This is just Cloudron convention

Kubernetes

@girish Great, I will have a look right now

Kubernetes

@girish I fixed the most mentioned things, but I still use to copy the application to /app/data because it needs to have write access when started.

EDIT 1: I did a merge request now

EDIT 2: I am not sure if I did push it right. I see the merged change in my repo now, but not in yours....

girish

@Kubernetes I think your local git repo is still pointing to your original repo on gitlab. You have to switch it to the forked one.

Kubernetes

@girish No, it is not. I did a git clone of the forked repo to a new path. I tried it now twice, but both times the push (even with branch) is going to my repo, but not to yours. I am not experienced with using git in collaboration, so there might be something I am doing wrong. But I don't know what it is. When I try to push (without branching), I get this error:

user@homeserver:~/gitlab.cloudron-official/linkding-app$ git push                                                                                                         
Enumerating objects: 7, done.                                                                                                                                               
Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.                                                                                                                                         
Delta compression using up to 4 threads                                                                                                                                     
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.                                                                                                                                      
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 1.15 KiB | 1.15 MiB/s, done.                                                                                                                   
Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0                                                                                                                        
remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project.                                                                                     
To ssh://git.cloudron.io:6000/cloudron/linkding-app.git                                                                                                                     
 ! [remote rejected] main -> main (pre-receive hook declined)                                                                                                               
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://git.cloudron.io:6000/cloudron/linkding-app.git'

any hints?

girish

@Kubernetes that looks like some permission issue . Let me check what I did..

girish

@Kubernetes yes, was my mistake. Can you please try again?

Kubernetes

@girish Yes! Now it did work, I pushed the two fixed files. As mentioned, it is still using /app/data as the manage.py does need write access during startup of the linkding application. I was not able to discover how to workaround this.

Kubernetes

I created a backup script that can be configured in the App Cron settings to backup the linkding database regulary to the /app/data/backups folder

backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /app/data/backups/
cd /app/data/backups/
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP=$(date +'%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')
BACKUP_FILE="backup_${CURRENT_TIMESTAMP}.sqlite3"
sqlite3 /app/data/data/db.sqlite3 ".backup '${BACKUP_FILE}'"

@girish
is it possible to get this configured automatically when deploying the package?

girish

On Cloudron, backups are automatic if one follows the right packaging style. I have to look into the app further.

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