[aur-general] How to submit a package to the AUR that is already in the community repo

[Barnabás Béres]

Thanks for all your suggestions I will build the package myself from source.

> 2021. febr. 28. dátummal, 17:38 időpontban Ralf Mardorf via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> írta:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:22:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:44:57 +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general
>>> wrote:
>>> On 28/02/2021 04:45, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote:  
>>>> It might be unnecessary to build "the single `hugo` binary", but
>>>> it's sort of necessary to build a package, at least if you prefer a
>>>> well-structured over a poorly structured Arch Linux install.    
>>> 
>>> My point, supporting the discussion so far, was that building hugo
>>> from source is not necessary to get the latest release in advance of
>>> the package being updated. Download it, make it executable, run it.
>>> 
>>> Nowhere did I say that using the existing PKGBUILD and building the
>>> package locally was a bad idea. However, it's certainly not
>>> necessary.  
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> 
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=katamari
>> 
>> depends=('hugo')
>> 
>> 
>> It's still not necessary to build a hugo package, if you build the
>> katamari package by not listing hugo as a dependency, or by building an
>> empty dummy package for hugo. It's possible to maintain an Arch Linux
>> install by this approach to some extent, without running into
>> trouble. It's asking for trouble, if this approach does gain the upper
>> hand.
> 
> Or to make it even more fishy, don't remove the existing hugo package,
> just overwrite the file(s) or even keep two versions and just override
> the obsolete version via PATH. Where shall we end up?