[aur-general] When does a package need -svn?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Apr 24 04:11:07 EDT 2009


Ray Rashif wrote:
> Uploading the tarball elsewhere is not an option at all since it goes
> against the author's intentions. SVN will have to do for now; script in the
> checkout as per normal under build() and not as in an svn buildscript.
>   

Actually, it is distributed under the GPL, so that is techniqually 
fine... In fact, to distribute binaries, you have have to host the 
source yourself.

Allan





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