I've adopted ferret, an ER modelling tool written in Tcl/Tk that has been very useful for me.
This is my first package in AUR, so any help or improvement from you will be great. Thanks in advance.
Hi Daniel, You should remove the empty variables from the PKGBUILD (e.g. makedepends, install). A package should not specify itself in the "replaces" and "provides" arrays either so you can remove those too. The package relies on interpreted files which are architecture-agnostic, so you can specify "any" as the architecture. You don't need to install the following: NEWS ChangeLog README ferret.bat (.bat files are only for Windows) There is no reason to copy the ferret executable only to then overwrite it completely. I recommend installing that file with the rest of the files and then installing a bash script in /usr/bin which then changes into the ferret directory and runs that script. This way you don't have to change the PKGBUILD every time the author changes his executable. Even if you don't opt for that approach, you should still include your own script in the local sources instead of creating it inside of the build function. The author also forgot to remove the CVS directories in his sources so you should remove those before copying everything into $pkgdir. I've attached a PKGBUILD with my recommendations applied along with the bash script for /usr/bin. It might also be a good idea to install to /opt/ferret but that's debatable. I suspect that gerwinml/ is unnecessary but I don't know (none of the files reference the dtd file according to grep). Regards, Xyne