Re: [aur-general] Newcomer
Am 14.03.2010 08:43, schrieb Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227): On 03/14/10 at 04:22am, Érico Nunes wrote: Hello, I'm a newcomer to this list. I've been using Arch for about a year and today I decided to learn what it takes to make an Arch package. I took a simple app I had developed in C++/OpenGL, learned how to use autotools to compile and install it. Had been using handcoded Makefiles before. Then, I followed the guidelines to write a PKGBUILD for it and went about making my package installable/uninstallable via pacman. Took a couple hours to grasp it right, but now that I understand how it works, I love Arch even more. I feel like helping the community and I think maintaining packages would be a starting point. How do I go about starting it, shall I just search for orphans/out of date that should/could be fixed, take them and thats it? :) Érico de Morais Nunes Engenharia de Computação Universidade Federal do Pampa Campus Bagé That's a wonderful place to start... There's a near infinite number of packages in AUR that are orphaned and need some love! Yes, that is the best place to start. A good source of inspiration also is the package request forum on archlinux.org. Regards Stefan
Re: [aur-general] Newcomer
On 03/14/10 at 04:22am, Érico Nunes wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newcomer to this list. > > I've been using Arch for about a year and today I decided to learn what it > takes to make an Arch package. > I took a simple app I had developed in C++/OpenGL, learned how to use > autotools to compile and install it. Had been using handcoded Makefiles > before. > Then, I followed the guidelines to write a PKGBUILD for it and went about > making my package installable/uninstallable via pacman. > Took a couple hours to grasp it right, but now that I understand how it > works, I love Arch even more. > > I feel like helping the community and I think maintaining packages would be > a starting point. > > How do I go about starting it, shall I just search for orphans/out of date > that should/could be fixed, take them and thats it? :) > > > Érico de Morais Nunes > Engenharia de Computação > Universidade Federal do Pampa > Campus Bagé That's a wonderful place to start... There's a near infinite number of packages in AUR that are orphaned and need some love! --
[aur-general] Newcomer
Hello, I'm a newcomer to this list. I've been using Arch for about a year and today I decided to learn what it takes to make an Arch package. I took a simple app I had developed in C++/OpenGL, learned how to use autotools to compile and install it. Had been using handcoded Makefiles before. Then, I followed the guidelines to write a PKGBUILD for it and went about making my package installable/uninstallable via pacman. Took a couple hours to grasp it right, but now that I understand how it works, I love Arch even more. I feel like helping the community and I think maintaining packages would be a starting point. How do I go about starting it, shall I just search for orphans/out of date that should/could be fixed, take them and thats it? :) Érico de Morais Nunes Engenharia de Computação Universidade Federal do Pampa Campus Bagé
