[aur-general] Missing Packages

[Ronald van Haren]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:25 PM, stefan-husmann at t-online.de
<stefan-husmann at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:07:39 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Missing Packages
>> From: "Ronald van Haren" <pressh at gmail.com style="margin:0px;">
>> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
>> <aur-general at archlinux.org>
>
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Allan McRae wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Use the "communitypkg" script.  Everything is automated there to
>> > > > prevent problems like this.
>> > > >
>> > > > Allan
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > The thing is that I built the package on another machine running
>> > > x86_64 and then uploaded the package from my machine (i686).
>> > >
>> > > I'll go over the communitypkg script and see if I missed anything.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > Never done that, but my guess is that you didn't remove the arch
>> > from the package name.  I don't think the community back-end is
>> > compatible with makepkg3 package naming.
>> >
>> > As I know other TU's do this too, it would be good if someone
>> > altered the communitypkg to create a communitypkg64 script that
>> > automates this in one command.
>> >
>> > Allan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I believe I have a communitypkg64 script still somewhere on my laptop
>> from the times I hadn't x86_64 (don't remember who created it though).
>> I'll check when I'm home.
>>
>> Ronald
>>
> Hello,
>
> did you mean firmicus' script? It is available at wget
> http://ankabut.net/archlinux/communitypkg64
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
>
>

yes that is the one :), thanks.
Maybe we should add this to the TU wiki, though that would probably
require that we actively maintain it so it does not, at some point in
the future, stop working correctly?

Ronald