[aur-general] My first PKGBUILD

LoneVVolf lonewolf at xs4all.nl
Mon Jun 13 10:51:48 UTC 2016


On 13-06-16 10:41, Bennett Piater wrote:
> On 06/12/2016 02:26 PM, marcin at marcin.co wrote:
>> Hi
>> I think you should use pkgver in source url.
>> Also, why would you copy libs to opt?
>> License is usually named just LICENSE
>> Is that the third package release? Or first?
> Thanks!
> I used $pkgver in the source url, renamed upstreams license.txt to
> LICENSE, and reset $pkgrel (It was my third local version).
I feel renaming files is counter to AL policy of keeping pacakges as 
close to upstream as possible.
Also some licenses exrpesslly forbid changing filenames.
please keep upstream names.

> I copy libs to opt because this is a java program that expects it's
> stuff to be in the same directory. Those libs are not shared anyways,
> they are specific to this program.
> Do you have a better idea? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Bennett
>
Check other java packages like freecol, they use /usr/share/java/$pkgname .

LW


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