Re: [aur-general] Hello (and kbib and yazpp packages)

Hi Ronald, On Sunday 24 August 2008 11:29:32 Ronald van Haren wrote:

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Peter Lewis wrote:

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I'm pretty new to Arch, so thought I'd say hi.

Anyway, so just thought I'd say hi, and if anyone has any feedback on these first two packages, that'd be much appreciated.

Hi! ...and welcome

Thanks!

- The maintainer line is only for binary packages in one of our repos. For packages in unsupported only use the contributor lines.

- you don't need to put packages in makedepends if they are already in depends

- if you patch, include the patch in the source line (and md5sums), and issue the patch from $srcdir (see nextpoint) and not $startdir

- to save you some typing in the future, you can use $srcdir and $pkgdir instead of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg

Thanks for the pointers. I've made some changes which I think reflect what you said. I have to say that although I've used Debian and Debian-based distros, SUSE and Gentoo for years off and on, and I've never quite managed to figure out how to create packages that work properly.... I like the Arch approach :-) Pete.