[aur-general] OneSwarm in AUR wants to update itself

[Mathias Burén]

Hi,

Thanks for all the inputs. I'll try to incorporate them. Yes, it sadly
relies on binaries, but building it is very difficult it seems at the moment
[1] but I'll try later on.

Regards,

Mathias


[1] http://forum.oneswarm.org/topic/58

2009/4/5 Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann at t-online.de>

> Mathias Burén schrieb:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I just created a package for OneSwarm [1] and uploaded it to the AUR [2].
>> The package works fine except that it has an auto-update feature, which of
>> course doesn't work since the user does not have write access to
>> /opt/OneSwarm. What is the correct way of dealing with this? Should I make
>> /opt/OneSwarm writable by the users group?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mathias
>>
>>
>> [1] http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
>>
>> [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25245
>>
>>
> Hello,
>
> your package relies on the binary tarballs from upstream. Did you try to
> build from the sources?
>
> There may be more possibilities to influence the behaviour using that
> level.
>
> Regards Stefan
>