Packaging request: Jami desktop client

[jluttine]

Project description

Jami (formerly GNU Ring) is an app for video/audio calls/conferences. It works p2p and has end-to-end encryption. It has clients for all major operating systems (Linux, WIndows, iOS, Android).

Nixpkgs already includes the daemon app although it's still named as Ring: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/64009

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://jami.net/
• source URL: https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome
• license: GPL3
• platforms: linux

[doronbehar]

@jluttine I've been putting effort into this and I have managed to build jami-daemon today. But this required some upstream patches, and other patches to Nixpkgs. So as a start, I need review for: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/94560 & https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/94460

Once I'll get these two PRs merged on Nixpkgs and I'll get https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht/pull/510 merged, everything should be ready to open a PR for jami-daemon.

[doronbehar]

Update: now the desktop client and the client library build, but the daemon fails to run: https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-daemon/issues/275 and without the daemon (dring), the desktop client is unusable. I've tried to apply the overrides that Guix applies:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/jami.scm?id=master#n141

Among which are -fPIC related cflags for ffmpeg and pjsip, but unfortunately they don't work - adding them doesn't make dring run:

==27318==ASan runtime does not come first in initial library list; you should either link runtime to your application or manually preload it with LD_PRELOAD.

I'm leaving this quest for now, unless somebody has an idea.

[alpmestan]

Hello,

@nschoe and I looked into packaging up Jami a few months ago and went as far as being able to run the daemon and GUI client. We could create an account, exchange messages, but dring would crash pretty easily (could be when one of us started typing, when we tried to make a call, etc). So obviously this is not perfect. But we did spend a whoooole lot of time scanning Jami's build system, so perhaps you'll find the Nix code we had useful?

Anyway, here's what we had: https://github.com/alpmestan/jami.nix

[stale[bot]]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[infinisil]

Still relevant

[pinpox]

Any updates on this, is someone working on it? I'm still interested in using it.

There seem to be multiple "desktop clients"

• https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome
• https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-client-qt
• https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-electron

The gnome one is the one with recent activity, would it be enough to package that one to get working jami?

[viric]

I have a fork of that set of nix expressions and it worked for me.

https://github.com/viric/jami.nix

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 04:27:02AM -0700, Pablo Ovelleiro Corral wrote:

Any updates on this, is someone working on it? I'm still interested in using it.

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[kevincox]

Is there anything preventing it from being included in nixpkgs? I think there would be a lot of people would would appreciate that.

[viric]

These were my experiments and that may have to be a bit more polished. And polishing for nixpkgsI'm not very good at but I welcome anyone bringing that to nixpkgs.

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Is there anything preventing it from being included in nixpkgs? I think there would be a lot of people would would appreciate that.

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[bqv]

Of course someone manages this just after i move to Guix 😩

[infinisil]

@viric Since you haven't pinned the nixpkgs in that repo, which version are you using with it?

[linsui]

I'm going to open a PR later. You can test it in https://github.com/linsui/nixpkgs/tree/jami. It seems audio and video are broken.

[kevincox]

Feel free to tag me for review+merge. It would be nice to get audio+video working but I'm also not opposed to merging the basics now and fixing things in follow ups.

[viric]

@Infinisil oh I missed the question. I guess I used the nixpkgs of the date of the commit files.

@linsui video/audio worked for me in my last attempt.

[linsui]

Ah, the audio and video works well after I enable the turn. Looks like it's my network that jami can't establish the connect.