Re: [aur-general] sanity check / review my first AUR package

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 21:58, rafael ff1 wrote:

2011/5/8 Taylor Venable :

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Hi everybody, I just started using Arch a few weeks ago, and I've been mightily impressed. I want to help out, so I started looking in the AUR for things to do. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a package for the devel version of SWI-Prolog. The stable release is in [community], and there are git snapshots in AUR, but they are old and unowned. So I created a package for the development release. The devel release is distinct from a git snapshot, which is why I created a separate package, rather than updating the git snapshot one. Since there are development releases, I don't personally find git snapshots to be that useful.

I wanted to make sure I'm doing this correctly, so if you have the time to take a look for me I'd appreciate it. Any guidance will be welcomed. I basically copied the [community] package's PKGBUILD and modified the necessary properties. I only have x86_64 machines, so I've not checked i686, but the resulting binary package does work for me. Since I wanted to get a little review before submitting it, the package can be found on my website: http://metasyntax.net/swi-prolog-devel-5.11.20-1.src.tar.gz

Looks good - I didn't compile it though. Just fyi, you can share PKGBUILDs in mail list using http://pastebin.com/ with BASH syntax highlighting, instead of compressed tarball.

I advise you to always run namcap after building packages and before uploading to AUR. It helps a lot! (Ex: to find missing dependency in "depends" array) See more in Namcap wiki.

Welcome aboard!

Thanks! I added a conflict for the swi-prolog in [community] and submitted it. :-) -- Taylor C. Venable http://metasyntax.net/