Re: [arch-general] Building packages and more

[Chris Brannon]

Lukas Fleischer  writes:

> `pacman -Si unrealircd | grep ^Packager`
> "Packager   : Evangelos Foutras "

Sorry, but this is incorrect.  The packager is not necessarily the
maintainer.  The packager is just the person who performed the most
recent rebuild of the package.  In the case of unrealircd, the packager
is not the maintainer.
If you want to know who maintains a package, use the package search form
on www.archlinux.org.

There's probably no reason to contact the
maintainer directly, anyway.  Bug reports should go to the bug-tracker,
and out-of-date notifications should be made by clicking the "flag
package" link on the package's page.

-- Chris

Re: [arch-general] Building packages and more

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:06:34AM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote:
> I wonder who the author of the UnrealIRCd package presently Is?

`pacman -Si unrealircd | grep ^Packager`
"Packager   : Evangelos Foutras "

> What do you folks think?
> I'd like to see the Anope stable/Citadle packages someday  included in Arch.

There are PKGBUILDs for both Anope [1] and Citadel [2] in the AUR. You
can download the necessary files from there and use makepkg(1) to build
packages. You might also want to read the wiki article about the AUR
[3].

Regards, Lukas

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23353
[2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24865
[3] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

[arch-general] Building packages and more

[Keith Hinton]

Hi all.
I've been looking into several packages that are not in the community 
repository of Arch Linux.
One is the Anope latest-stable package.
If any of you have ran an IRC server such as UnrealIRCd, wich is in arch, then 
you will know what Anope is.
I don't have the time at present to package Anope myself, and was intending to 
look at the old ANope 1.9 devel build, but that package is out of date.
What if looking at that PKGBuild isn't enough and the Anope 1.8 package breaks?
I've compiled Anope millions of times before on Arch, and other distros without 
problems.
But the ./Configure script requires that questions are answered with either Y's 
or N's in specific places at least I think, it's been some time sinse I've ran 
an IRC network on Linux with the Anope services package.
I wonder who the author of the UnrealIRCd package presently Is?
Another package that I wonder if anyone would be interested in seeing if it is 
possible for inclusion (again) because I just don't have the time to do 
anything with it personally, is the Citadle mail server from:
http://www.citadel.org/
I have found that server extremely simpol to install for those who aren't used 
to say Postfix, and the webserver even has an intigration with that, so that 
say Squirlmail isn't required.
What do you folks think?
I'd like to see the Anope stable/Citadle packages someday  included in Arch.
If I had the time I'd try to build those myself.
But due to circumstances I lack the time necessary to maintaine such packages.
Does anyone have any useful feedback?
I've already read the wiki so this isn't an issue of "hasn't read documentation"
This is an issue of not having time to maintain, so why would I wish to start 
doing something for the Arch community and not have time to continue once began 
anyhow?
I love the Arch community, and although I myself am no C programmer, I still 
wish to help out by making useful package suggestions and such.If anyone has 
any great feedback on this posting please let me know, or do so off list!
You can find me on irc.freenode.net #ArchLinux as Keith-BlindUser.
Thanks again!
Regards, --Keith
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