[aur-general] Problems with PKGBUILD (Also, request for package deletion)

[Ronald van Haren]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Smartboy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Problem is, I forgot to change the maintainer stuff at the top of the
>>>>> script, and when I try to edit it, even changing the pkgrel value doesn't
>>>>> work. I can't get the PKGBUILD on the site to change (I used another
>>>>> package's PKGBUILD to make mine). Can anyone help?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure it's not just your browser's cache showing you the older
>>>> version? I'm currently seeing easy-e17 1.2.2-3.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're right, sorry. [?]
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Also, I am requesting the make-e17 script be removed. It does basically
>>>>> the same thing as my script, but hasn't worked in a year and has been
>>>>> flagged out of date for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can't find any packages named "make-e17". Unless another TU has
>>>> deleted it already, could you post a link to the package you want removed?
>>>>
>>> It is make_e17, not make-e17, sorry. :-\
>>>
>>> Smartboy
>>>
>>
>> I don't mind too much, but I don't really see the use of the script. IMO
>> it would be much better to have a script around which uses the ABS PKGBUILDs
>> and alternatively some AUR ones which are not in [community].
>>
>> I have one laying around which builds the community package, and there is
>> one other on the forums IIRC. With a bit of work we could create a much more
>> usefull arch e17 script. These are just some thoughts so do with it whatever
>> you want :P
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>
> I created the script on the forum which tries to get it from SVN using the
> PKGBUILDs you made, but there were too many problems with it. One was that,
> since there really is no "easy" way besides using yaourt-git to get
> community PKGBUILDs, and yaourt-git has many bugs with the -G function
> (like, when I try to get eina-svn, it gets eina instead). I tried fixing
> this, but I would have to have people download PKGBUILDs from my post, which
> is not what a script should require.
>

You can let the script depend on ABS. If people have a full ABS checkout
they have all PKGBUILDs required. In the script you could call abs via sudo,
I don't think that should be too much of a problem.

Ronald
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