[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer at web.de> wrote:
> Am Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:40:59 -0600
> schrieb "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
>> So where do we stand on all of this? As I showed above, the makepkg
>> and repo-add pieces are pretty much in place. We've done a decent
>> amount of work on the libalpm/pacman side of things, but it isn't
>> complete yet and is very rough around the edges. This is something
>> that is very doable if people want to jump in and help us get this
>> done. Obviously knowledge of C would be helpful, but we can always use
>> some beta testers to help us work out kinks if necessary.
>>
>> -Dan
>
> I'm also very interessing to help. I think, mostly with testing but i'm
> sure i have some ideas too.
> It is ok to check out the named git repos or could you give/setup a
> more complete test enviroment?

Yes, I would recommend checking out that GIT repo, taking a look at
that branch, and seeing what it currently does.

To get it built from source:
./autogen.sh
./configure <options, where these are probably similar to those found
in pacman's PKGBUILD>
make

-Dan