[aur-general] Orphan request: bacula

Steven Haigh netwiz at crc.id.au
Wed May 7 22:28:29 EDT 2014


On 08/05/14 07:46, Xyne wrote:
> On 2014-05-08 06:24 +1000
> Steven Haigh wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to take back the bacula AUR package to continue maintaining.
>> 	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bacula/
>>
>> I am the submitter of the original AUR package:
>> 	Submitter: 	CRCinAU
>>
>> I am listed as a maintainer in the PKGBUILD file:
>> 	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ba/bacula/PKGBUILD
>>
>> # Maintainers: Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au>
>> #              goll <adrian.goll+aur[at]gmail>
>>
>> I have tried contacting goll to update the package, but have not heard a
>> response for some time (and a few revisions).
>>
>> I hereby request that either the package be orphaned so I can pick it up
>> and update it in future, or the maintainer be changed by to myself (ie
>> the submitter).
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Orphaned.
> 
> Is the temporary _instdir really necessary? It looks like an ugly hack at first
> glance. Regardless, it definitely shouldn't be creating directories in $PWD.
> Please change that to "$srcdir/build" or something similar.
> 
> The install commands in the package function should include explicit
> permissions as well, e.g. "install -Dm644 ...". If you really can't use the
> makefile install function then I would replace most of those commands with for
> loops, e.g
> 
> for script in "$_instdir"/etc/bacula/scripts/*
> do
>   install -Dm644 "$script" "$pkgdir/etc/bacula/scripts/${script##*/}"
> done
> 
> Also note the quoting of all path variables to prevent word expansion on paths
> containing spaces.
> 

All taken onboard. I'll implement these in future package updates.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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