[aur-general] Trusted User application

Nicola Squartini tensor5 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 13:45:47 UTC 2016


On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 14:30 +0200, Levente Polyak wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
> 
> sounds great to get atom/electron into [community].
> 
> On 07/23/2016 06:39 AM, Nicola Squartini via aur-general wrote:
> > 
> > When I first started using Atom, I didn't like the fact that the
> > official installation procedure would push precompiled stuff into
> > my
> > system: as every old school Linux guy, I feel itchy using binaries
> > not compiled by me or by the distribution of my choice.
> 
> That's the right spirit ^.^
> 
> As I always do, I take a look at those stuff and give you some
> feedback:
> 
> black-screen
> =============
> - source filenames should be globally unique and must be unique when
> a
>   package gets moved into the repos. the SRCDST of all packages could
>   be the very same directory. Github sources are only containing
>   version in the tarball, therefor those should be prefixed with
>   something like:
>     ${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github...

Thanks for the tip!

> 
> caprine
> ========
> - same unique source filename like black-screen
> 
> flaccuraterip
> ==============
> - any access to both, ${srcdir} and ${pkgdir} must be put into quotes
>   as they may contain spaces. both used in build() and package() 

If I remember, the very first PKGBUILD was generated by a script, and I
only updated the version and dependency after that. I will quote those
variables.

> func.
> 
> mancy
> ======
> - same source filename uniqueness as black-screen
> 
> min
> ====
> - again this annoying unique source filename thingie :P
> 
> haskell-happstack
> ==================
> To be honest I did not take too much time looking at the haskell repo
> thingie, however a small thing came into my mind while reading the
> build
> scripts: (I know you don't plan to move those, its just a small side
> note nothing more!):
> - everything that gets pulled into the repos must be able to build
>   without special scripts/setup, f.e. by the wrapper extra-x86_64-
> build
>   from the devtools package.

The PKGBUILDs there are managed by Magnus Therning's excellent cblrepo
tool [1]. My main job there is to write patches when something goes
wrong with dependencies (Haskell is very strict also about
dependencies).

> 
> 
> On 07/23/2016 06:39 AM, Nicola Squartini via aur-general wrote:
> > 
> > Haskell programming language (my favourite language, btw)
> 
> Any chance you feel like you need a new project and want to make
> xmonad
> work with wayland? :P :D

Then I should call it wmonad :D

> 
> 
> On 07/23/2016 06:39 AM, Nicola Squartini via aur-general wrote:
> > 
> > Please don't hesitate to ask me questions, if you have any
> 
> Just our of personal interest, where are you from?

I'm from Italy, but currently I live in Japan.

> 
> cheers and have a nice Sunday,
> Levente
> 
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