[arch-proaudio] How to rename an AUR package

David Runge dave at sleepmap.de
Fri Jan 25 11:42:54 UTC 2019


On 2019-01-24 17:55:24 (-0500), bill-auger wrote:
> you dont strictly need to do anything special - the AUR is not
> intended to be sane - but if it were an official package, and/or if
> there is a similarly named package in the official repos, then i think
> the thing to do is to add the original package name to its
> conflict-resolution arrays - e.g. for a package named 'foo':
If one ships binaries, it needs to be a -bin package [1].
The conflicts array is only required, in case there is a from-source
version of the same software (not having the -bin appendix in its name).

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nonfree_applications_package_guidelines#Package_naming

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