[aur-general] AUR package with prebuilt packages

[Paul Finkelshteyn]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:23:51 -0400
Eli Schwartz via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 8/12/19 2:12 PM, Paul Finkelshteyn wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:03:55 -0400
> > Eli Schwartz via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >   
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> As kodi-devel-bin take almost forever to build I've created github
> >>> https://github.com/asm0dey/arch-kodi-devel-builder/ with pre-built
> >>> packages.
> >>>
> >>> Now I want to create AUR packages which will be able to install
> >>> these binary packages.    
> >>
> >> No.  
> > 
> > Basically it's why I'm writing here  
> 
> And thank you for asking first! :)
> 
> >>> As you can see I have some knowledge on how to maintain packages:
> >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=asm0dey but in this
> >>> concrete situation I have no any idea on how to create packages.
> >>> Of course I can't just use these packages in source field because
> >>> they have their own dependencies. Also I think I can't just
> >>> install them inside build or package phase…
> >>>
> >>> So question is: is there any recommended way to do what I want?
> >>>  
> >>
> >> If you replace the word "recommended" with the word "allowed", then
> >> the answer is "you are allowed to advertise your repository on
> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories
> >> and on the package details for the AUR package".
> >>
> >> In fact, you're actually encouraged to do so. That's why we have
> >> the wiki listing in the first place. :)
> >>  
> > 
> > But truth is I don't have repository (cause repository should have
> > some predefined layout and so on). And I'm not sure if it's
> > possible to create something repository-like on github. And I
> > currently I have no idea on where should I have to host repository
> > for it to be more or less reliable.  
> 
> I think you can probably use github pages for this. Github already
> allows release assets, and there are definitely people putting release
> assets in github pages, so I don't think this is against the terms of
> service, and github pages lets you provide a simple html index and
> file structure however you like.
> 
> Just make sure to rebuild and force overwrite the gh-pages branch
> rather than appending new commits, to make sure the size doesn't get
> too big due to bloaty binary blobs in git history.
> 

Sounds awful cause it will bloat repo size to insane sizes (built
packages are tens of MB) and it's devel version so it may obtain
updates several times a week…

OK it looks like there is no sane way to do what I want so maybe I
should just leave it as repo-for-myself.

Paul
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