[New Package] Kavita

[mreid-tt]

Description

Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with a focus for being a full solution for all your reading needs.

Closes #5967

Checklist

• Build rule all-supported completed successfully
• New installation of package completed successfully
• Package upgrade completed successfully (Manually install the package again)
• Package functionality was tested
• Any needed documentation is updated/created

Type of change

• New Package
• This change requires a documentation update (e.g. Wiki)

[mreid-tt]

@hgy59, I've created this new package based on #5967. The source is built on dotnet so I leveraged the templates from the *arr family of packages. There were a few exceptions:

1. I could not use the standard SERVICE_COMMAND because each time the package launched I got the following error:

Error reading app settings: Could not find file '/config/appsettings.json'.

• Trying to resolve it by adding environment variables for $HOME and others did not help. This app also does not seem to support command line arguments based on its documentation
• To work around the problem I made a manual service_prestart based on the wiki page and added an explicit change to the working directory; this resolved the issue

2. The package does not use the latest v0.7.12 from source because under DSM 6, I get the following errors:

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection' threw an exception.
 ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
 ---> System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'e_sqlite3' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider using a tool like strace. If you're using glibc, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: 
/volume1/@appstore/kavita/share/e_sqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /volume1/@appstore/kavita/share/libe_sqlite3.so)
libe_sqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/volume1/@appstore/kavita/share/e_sqlite3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/volume1/@appstore/kavita/share/libe_sqlite3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

• Downgrading to the v0.7.11.2 release resolved the issue

[mreid-tt]

hey @hgy59, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the error I posted:

/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /volume1/@appstore/kavita/share/libe_sqlite3.so)

As this happens only with DSM 6, I would imagine it has something to do with this dependency:

spksrc/spk/kavita/Makefile

Lines 35 to 39 in 61b509e

	include ../../mk/spksrc.common.mk
	ifeq ($(call version_lt, ${TCVERSION}, 7.0),1)
	# dotnet requires libstdc++ version >= 6.0.22
	DEPENDS += cross/libstdc++
	endif

Or are we missing a dependency?

[hgy59]

@mreid-tt for this package prebuilt binaries are used. Those binaries are not compiled with the DSM toolchains.

So the binaries are built with a dependency of gligc that is newer than what is available under DSM 6.

The only solution would be to build the package from source with the toolchains and native/dotnet8, but it could be a hard requirement of the sqlite library in the package and fail to build.
I guess you have to drop support for DSM < 7.

[mreid-tt]

@mreid-tt for this package prebuilt binaries are used. Those binaries are not compiled with the DSM toolchains.

So the binaries are built with a dependency of gligc that is newer than what is available under DSM 6.

The only solution would be to build the package from source with the toolchains and native/dotnet8, but it could be a hard requirement of the sqlite library in the package and fail to build. I guess you have to drop support for DSM < 7.

Thanks for the analysis. The package has been updated to remove DSM 6 support. Your final review and approval would be appreciated.

[mreid-tt]

@hgy59, any final thoughts on this or are we good to merge?

[hgy59]

I am missing some documentation on how to configure the folders in kavita.

We should document that the internal system user sc-kavita must have read access to the folders (or does it even need write access too?)

[mreid-tt]

I am missing some documentation on how to configure the folders in kavita.

We should document that the internal system user sc-kavita must have read access to the folders (or does it even need write access too?)

I've amended the wizard. The Kavita First Time Setup has no guidance on permissions so I'd play it safe with assumed full permissions.

[hgy59]

LGTM

[borisrorsvort]

@mreid-tt would you have time to upgrade the package to the latest version?

[mreid-tt]

@mreid-tt would you have time to upgrade the package to the latest version?

hi @borisrorsvort, yes, I'll try to make some time over the weekend to publish an update.