[aur-general] introduction and questions

[Daniel J Griffiths]

jezra wrote:
> M
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 07.07.2009 03:42, jezra wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello, my name is Jezra and I'm interested in making a PKGBUILD for a
>>> commandline audio player that I wrote in Vala. Actually, I've already
>>> written a PKGBUILD but, through reading the AUR documentation, it was
>>> advised that I first post the PKGBUILD to the mailing list because
>>> this is my first PKGBUILD. I have attached the PKGBUILD source and I
>>> would appreciate feedback.
>>>
>>> I also have a question regarding making packages for AUR.  The name of
>>> my application is 'sap' and a search of the AUR turns up another
>>> application named sap. What is the best way to resolve the issue of
>>> name collision for packages in AUR?
>>>
>>>
>>> jezra
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi jezra,
>>
>> Attachments will not work on here if your mail client does not know to
>> open PKGBUILDs as ASCII because it assumes it is binary. I suggest you
>> upload the PKGBUILD to some online pasting service and choose "shell
>> script" so that we get pretty colors.
>>
>> -- Sven-Hendrik Haase
>>
>>     
>
> My apologies, I should have stated in my first post that I've uploaded
> a tarball of the PKGBUILD that I would like to upload to AUR.
>
>   
Uploaded where... If we don't know where to find it, it's kinda hard to 
advise you on it.

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