[aur-general] introduction and questions

[jezra lickter]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:42:37 -0400
Daniel J Griffiths <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:

> 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.
> 
my apologies again, I should have said "I have attached a tarball of
the PKGBUILD" in my first post in this thread. However, since I didn't
say that; I am attaching a tarball of the PKGBUILD that I would like to
upload to AUR.