[aur-general] java pkgbuild

[nathan owe.]

Ronald van Haren wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:28 AM, nathan owe.<ndowens04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ronald van Haren wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:20 AM, nathan owe.<ndowens04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> nathan owe. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> 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
>>
>>     
>
> start learning other programs, how to apply patches, make sure all
> your packages follow the standards. At some point we'd like to see
> that you know how to handle when issues arise. Remember we are a
> bleading edge distro, not all things work just out of the box so
> simple patches may need to be created.
>
> Ronald
>   
well i don't know how to make patches, now if there is patches out, i 
can figure out how to apply them to the build function though