[arch-general] debian conversion tool

[Jude DaShiell]

What should I be reading to learn how to put a correct PKGBUILD file
together?  One question I have is what to do about subdirectories in
packages with respect to sha256sums.


On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:

> On 4/27/21 7:22 PM, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:
> > For this package archlinux conversion isn't necessary.
> > After installing dosemu2-git try:
> > git clone http://www.github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos
> > If you put that into ~/build cd build/install-freedos.
> > What I did was to run msudo make install.
> > Then I went into the install-freedos/src directory.
> > Next I ran sudo pip install tqdm.
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> Please don't do this.
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> - Don't sudo pip, just pacman -S python-tqdm
> - You should make an AUR package for this which depends on python-tqdm
>   and runs `DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" prefix=/usr make install`
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> > Then I ran
> > python ./freedos-installuserspace.
> > That program runs others so when next you run
> > dosemu -t
> > and go into f:/bin
> > You'll find a bunch of dos utilities you didn't have before.
> > If anyone runs into problems following these directions I'll make a tee
> > script of the commands and output and upload it to clear problems.
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