[aur-general] new @ aur please help getting things right with package idjc
hello people, i would like to introduce myself, i am tobias from leipzig, germany and as i love doing radio i love using idjc. after (partially) switching to arch and liking it i compiled it myself, just as i have done for more than a year now on debian. after discovering aur and seeing idjc is unsupported i decided that if i compile each new version myself i might as well help and try to get it updated in aur. unfortunately i am having very little time at the moment, leaving me no time for radio, yet i am trying my best to keep up with new releases. with the last release i had some problems (as mentioned in the forum, it did not build due to some changes in the place some headerfiles of ffmpeg got saved). unfortunately in the german forum i got into the way of a troll which discouraged me a bit for a while. as the latest version even did not work correctly on my own system and i had not enough time to check things out i had to delay working on it. anyway, i just uploaded a new PKGBUILD for the latest release of idjc. to my pleasure it built even without patching or the likes and installs correctly on my system and is working fine. right now i do not have the chance to test idjc on 64 bit, but i am going to install that again soon. i had a broken computer and had to start from scratch on a new machine. i would appreciate any help, i am willing to read manuals, already did read some aur related docs. i might be missing something. i know i am no programmer, i am still learning i just want to do my best and help. if i am missing something, please do tell me. most important: does it build for other people too? i have been broadcasting with radiotux.de from linuxtage chemnitz last linuxtag berlin last year and talking to people there i found that there is a great demand for an application like idjc. i would like to see it in arch and i would like to help others to use it in a simple way. this is my motivation. to give something back for all the great things i am receiving. humble greetings, das.t
The AUR is actually a transparent (almost?) source-based web-based power-based car-lifting-based package manager. Whatever problems that arise will be reported by the users as comments, so you will get your feedback. Willing to read manuals? Good, get ready to lift a Volkswagen: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards You already did? OK. If you would like help with a package: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=38 Been there? OK. If your main concern is with idjc getting into the main repos, don't worry. If it's popular, or a TU deems it to be useful, then it will get into community (or extra if a package is _really_ useful). ATM you can monitor the comments to see if it does _not_ build for someone. So for the PKGBUILD itself: * Don't patch like that -------- Write a normal patch with diff -aur It looks way cluttered and is not simple anymore. Once you keep it clean and simple, it will be easier to troubleshoot problems. You can take a look at a Gentoo ebuild to get some ideas for the build process. There is a little bit more to touch up, but I hope you can learn that yourself.
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das.t
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Ray Rashif