[aur-general] How to handle installers in PKGBUILDs

[Michael Schubert]

Yes, you are right. However, I do have one or two other installer-only
packages as well that I would like to provide PKGBUILDs for and don't
require registration (the above was more of an example - the archive issues
may or may not arise).

Also, I think circumventing registration processes is ok as long as it isn't
required to use the software, i.e., the application GPL'd or something
alike. In this case it is not GPL'd, so there might be a licensing issue as
well, although there is no "you have to register to use this software
clause" - let's see what the authors think ;)

Thus my initial question lacks a valid example now because the other
installers may well be extractable. Consider it solved, if I run into a
specific problem I will post it again.

2011/2/10 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Kevin <31337h4ck3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at ...> writes:
> >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Michael Schubert <mschu.dev at ...>wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The download is only available as binary package with its own
> > installer.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Do you have a direct link to the download? I would like to take a look
> > but
> > > the only one I could find is through a registration process.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> >
> > Try this URL:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.systems-biology.org/download/download.php?swf=CellDesigner-4.1-linux-
> > installer.bin
> >
> >
> Thanks but it needs a registration as well. What I wanted to point out is
> that Michael PKGBUILD won't be able to download the source file.
>
> --
> Cédric Girard
>