[aur-general] java pkgbuild

[nathan owe.]

Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:20 AM, nathan owe.<ndowens04 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Allan McRae wrote:
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>>> nathan owe. wrote:
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>>>> i am trying to find an example java build on arch wiki, also been looking
>>>> at the forums. is there no example pkgbuild that i can copy and put in
>>>> /usr/share/pacman/
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>>> There is none that I know of.   Most java packages just dump all their
>>> files in /usr/share/java/${pkgname}/ and add a launcher script to /usr/bin.
>>>
>>> Allan
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>> k thx. i guess i can figure it out. another question. how long normally does
>> it take to be a TU. my main goal is just contributing to arch but being a TU
>> would be nice one day
>>
>>     
>
> It really depends. Make sure you learn most he packaging tricks and
> contribute to AUR. Once you are confident you know most tricks in the
> book and you think we are also confident you did, get in contact with
> one of the current TUs and ask them to sponsor you.
> Alternatively you may ask one at some point what they think you should
> improve before you apply to increase your chances.
>
> Ronald
>   
At the moment i can do programs that use C** programming, of course some 
dont compile but if they compile fine i can usually get them to work and 
get it pkged correctly according to namcap