Hi, Vincent.

I also contributed a wine-based application recently [1] and found the examples at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine_package_guidelines very helpful. Since the wine prefix typically needs to be at least partially writable, I chose to place the read-only files under /usr/share and link them from per-user wine prefixes.

Cheers, Daniel

[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/adobe-reader-11/ . I would also be grateful for constructive criticism if anyone wants to have a look.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 17:18, Vince via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

Hello,

This is my first time interacting with a mailing list, so please let me know if I've done something wrong, or I'm asking in the wrong place.

I plan to submit a binary PKGBUILD for REXPaint, and since it's distributed as a portable binary for WINE, I have a couple questions about the guidelines:

1. Is it right that it should be installed into /usr/share?

2. How do I properly include files that are necessary for use, but not

included in the upstream source? In my case, this would be a .desktop file and a bash script in /usr/bin. My intuition is to use "echo" during the prepare() phase, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner way to do this.

3. In accordance with the Nonfree guidelines, I will name my package

'rexpaint-bin'. However, since there is no open source version yet, do I need to conflict it with 'rexpaint'?

Thanks in advance, Vincent

On 21-07-30 15:18, Vince via aur-general wrote:

Hello,

This is my first time interacting with a mailing list, so please let me know if I've done something wrong, or I'm asking in the wrong place.

For a shorter feedback loop, hop onto the #archlinux-aur IRC channel and ask for some advice. There's generally always people around willing to critique potential packages.

I plan to submit a binary PKGBUILD for REXPaint, and since it's distributed as a portable binary for WINE, I have a couple questions about the guidelines:

1. Is it right that it should be installed into /usr/share?

Binaries go into /usr/bin, not sure how Wine specific binaries are done though.

2. How do I properly include files that are necessary for use, but not

included in the upstream source? In my case, this would be a .desktop file and a bash script in /usr/bin. My intuition is to use "echo" during the prepare() phase, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner way to do this.

Add them to the sources array and install them in the package function.

One of my packages (nanosaur[0]) may be of some help.

3. In accordance with the Nonfree guidelines, I will name my package

'rexpaint-bin'. However, since there is no open source version yet, do I need to conflict it with 'rexpaint'?

If the sources aren't available[1], you don't have to.

Thanks in advance, Vincent

Welcome to the mailing list :)

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nanosaur [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submissi...

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