Thanks all for the great reviews. Thank you in particular to those who said WHY changes were suggested. I now feel empowered to go on to package rambox-os. I believe I have incorporated all the feedback I received in the below. If I missed something it is by mistake - and I ask for your generosity in pointing it out once again. ========================================================= # Maintainer: Tom Hale <tom[noodle]hale[point]ee> # Contributor: twa022 <twa022 at gmail dot com> _pkgname=nixnote2 pkgname=${_pkgname}-git pkgver=2.1.0.beta3.r95.g8f235769 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc='Evernote clone (formerly Nevernote) - git checkout' url="https://github.com/robert7/$_pkgname" arch=(x86_64) license=(GPL3) depends=(java-runtime hicolor-icon-theme poppler-qt5 tidy qt5-webkit) makedepends=(git) provides=("nixnote=${pkgver%.r*}" "$_pkgname=${pkgver%.r*}") replaces=(nevernote nixnote nixnote-beta) source=("git+${url}.git") sha256sums=('SKIP') pkgver() { cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname" git describe --long | sed -E 's/^v//;s/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g' } build() { cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname" qmake PREFIX=/usr make } package() { cd "$_pkgname" make INSTALL_ROOT="$pkgdir" install install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${_pkgname}/" docs/{shortcuts-howto,CHANGELOG}.md # Rename shortcuts.txt to align with shortcuts-howto.md: install -m644 shortcuts.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${_pkgname}/shortcuts_sample.txt" } -- Regards, Tom Hale