On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Alasdair Haswell wrote:

Hello,

I've recently joined this list and thought I should introduce myself. I'm a linux sysadmin for a fairly large hosting company and have been using linux for around eight years now.  I've been running Arch for a little over a year and it's quickly become my distro of choice.  The AUR is an exceptional resource and I've decided to contribute some of my time towards maintaining some packages.

Welcome!

I've picked up an orphan; rng-tools and updated it to the latest version.  It's my first attempt at writing a PKGBUILD, any comments/suggestions would be welcome.

I did not install/test the package. One tiny thing though: Usage of $startdir is deprecated, use $srcdir and $pkgdir instead of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg.

I'm also looking at updating the meanwhile library, it looks to have been out of date for some years now. I've emailed the maintainer with no response - how would I go about taking over this package?

Send an orphan request to this list, containing the link to the package. One of the TUs will orphan it if applicable.

Regards, Ali.

best, david