[aur-requests] [PRQ#18055] Deletion Request for uperm

[Dmitri McGuckin]

I recall this page was in fact the one I saw when I made this. It does not
outline what you prescribed. If it did, I would have followed it.

I understand the bit about sudo for installation but installation is not
why it's listed as a dependency. It's listed as a dependency because sudo
can be used alongside the program itself for reasons relating to order of
use of chown, etc. Though if I did use it in the install that's because
admittedly I am new to making pkgbuilds.

Advice is appreciated if you have some to offer, but the official guide(s)
across the Arch wiki doesn't mandate a specific pattern of installation.

So again, much if not all of your criticism is not reason enough for
removal.

All the best,
Dmitri McGuckin


On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:23 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
wrote:

> On 2/23/20 8:10 PM, Dmitri McGuckin wrote:
> > Not that I care about the package itself but most of the criticisms laid
> > out are subjective.
> >
> > Nothing listed above is explicitly laid out in the guidelines for
> > user-packages:
> >
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#Adding_your_repository_to_this_page
>
> You're looking at the wrong page, the AUR is governed by
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
>
> > Unless I'm missing something, /opt is intended for user programs. If you
> > have a better idea of where it should be, I'd love to hear it, but again,
> > not inherently a valid reason for removal.
>
> Incorrect, /opt is intended for things which are self-contained rather
> than following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (i.e. they don't fit
> neatly into bin/ include/ lib/ and share/ directories).
>
> Shellscripts can and do get installed to /usr/bin all the time.
>
> But, this is not the issue that I mentioned. The issue that I mentioned
> is that the PKGBUILD will sudo install the file to /opt, and then
> makepkg will create an empty package. You can pacman -S uperm or pacman
> -R uperm and it doesn't make a difference, because the software consists
> of untracked files copied to /opt before the package was created.
>
> PKGBUILDs must install their files to "${pkgdir}/opt" or "${pkgdir}/usr"
> and NOT to /opt or /usr ...
>
> ... or else they are not even a package in the first place.
>
> See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages#package()
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
> Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
>
>
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