[aur-general] Download of the source code is blocked

[brent timothy saner]

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On 02/04/2015 01:52 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
> On 04-02-2015 16:32, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote:
>> AFAIK, never include source code (aur is not for hosting).
>>
>> You might find this usefull:
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18606
> I imagined that. I was considering putting the source on another
> webserver, but it's far from optimal. Thanks for your response. I don't
> know if this advice still is valid, because as far as I can tell, the
> makepkg script only look in the DLAGENTS environment variable. Perhaps I
> could try to tweak with it. Anyway, thank you for your response.
> 
> Cheers,
> Giancarlo Razzolini


If I may offer an alternative, you could check it into a public git
repository (I personally am not a fan of the big ones- github,
bitbucket, etc.- as I like to host my own, but to each their own) *as
long as* you provide proper credit to original author and a copy of the
GPL (if the original tarball doesn't provide it). If it's truly licensed
by the author under the GPL, this should suffice the GPL redistribution
requirements unless I'm mistaken (and someone please correct me if I'm not).

It looks like the website's been totally rehauled(?) and the project
abandoned(?), which actually can be an advantage- you wouldn't need to
merge in changes often.

Anyways, you can do all that and then build a -git package[0].


[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines
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