[aur-general] TU process

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Tue Aug 24 16:31:26 EDT 2010


Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-24 21:51:28 +0200:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am not good at resume' like stuff LOL. I mean I don't know programming
> > > which would probably be kind of looked down on. Though on the upside I am
> > > online every night :)
> >
> > Shell scripting is the only language that a TU *must* know.  Familiarity
> > with others can be helpful at times.  For instance, I've occasionally
> > had to write patches for C-based packages.  If I hadn't been capable of
> > writing those, I would have found someone who was, either upstream, or
> > within the TU community.  Can you research a problem and find a solution
> > to it?  That's a valuable skill; don't underestimate it.
> >
> > -- Chri
> >
> 
> 
> Currently I was having a issue with algoscore. Namcap gave a insecure rpath,
> so I figured out how to fix that and created a patch. At some point in time
> today I got to figure out what is causing the actual program to not run or
> crash.
> I know a bit of shell scripting, I am not the greatest but I can do some
> scripting. :)

I'm looking forward to trying algoscore once you got it running. I may
be able to help you a bit with packaging too.
-- 
Philipp

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