[aur-general] AUR package with prebuilt packages

[Paul Finkelshteyn]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:33:52 +0300
Paul Finkelshteyn <pavel.finkelshtein at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Oh I see, you're telling about rewriting commits. It may make sense,
but will take wome time to implement. Should think about it, thanks

Paul

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