PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Marcel Hollerbach mail@bu5hm4n.de
_pkgname=anna
pkgname=$_pkgname
pkgdesc="Spawny with a efl greeter"
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
url="http://github.com/marcelhollerbach/anna"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('BSD')
depends=('efl' 'protobuf-c')
makedepends=('git' 'meson')
provides=("$_pkgname=$pkgver")
conflicts=("$_pkgname")
source=("https://github.com/marcelhollerbach/anna/archive/v0.1.tar.gz" 'spawny.sysusers' 'spawny.install' 'spawny.tmpfiles')
install=spawny.install
sha256sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  mkdir -p build
  cd build
  rm -rf ./*
  meson ..
  ninja all
}

check() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/build"
  ninja test
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/build"
  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" ninja install
  install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/spawny.sysusers ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/spawny.conf
  install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/spawny.tmpfiles ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/spawny.conf
}

spawny.install

post_install() {
  sp-greeter-set /usr/local/bin/anna
}

spawny.sysusers

u spawny - "Spawny greeter user" /var/lib/spawny

spawny.tmpfiles

d /var/lib/spawny - - - - -

Cool! Yeah the package for now just sits in /usr/local, will change that at some point, will check the error when building with visibility=hidden.

You don't need to add spawny.install to the source string, it's already in the install sting.
I've updated my previous PKGBUILD above to reflect this.

Should we also have the install file enable the deamon and greater, or just have it output a massage with instructions to run?

systemctl enable sp-daemon.socket sp-greeter-start

Not too sure about that. enabling and starting the socket ... maybe, but really not sure about the sp-greeter-start ... maybe someone installs just to try ... and then has lightdm & spawny that will fight for the best fitting vt and who gets the attention ? :/