And I can assure you they do not 'spam' you with any sort of adds, or any nonsense. ...I avoid signing up for things as much as possible, but github is really just a great company/organization/site/whatever.
Absolutely agree, 100%
Also, as long as you have a Github account, you can do neat things like building git archives of /etc or ~/,config and pushing them to github -- makes recovery from mistakes a snap.
But in this case you are the upstream source. They're small ... so? They're yours. You don't need to fix someone else's work and include the fix in the tarball ... it's your work.
Also, github is handy for many other purposes. And I can assure you they do not 'spam' you with any sort of adds, or any nonsense. They also have *phenomenal* service reps. I emailed a question one day and within hours I had a very courteous, clear, and complete answer ... and I'm not subscribing, just using their free service. I avoid signing up for things as much as possible, but github is really just a great company/organization/site/whatever.
]]>it's likely the scripts will change over time
Yes, there are some that do it, but I have seen packages removed from the AUR because of it when someone brings it up to a TU. The AUR is not meant to host your source code. It may just be a small 3K bash script, but then where is the line? If 3K is ok, how about 5K? 10K? 100? 1M?
Enough reasons. The scripts may not change over time, but Scimmia is absolutely right -I should have thought about it before-. I'll go with the github approach.
Thank you both! Marking as solved.
Best regards,
Kalrish
I've made a very small package. It's made up of only two files (two small shell scripts), so I added them along with the PKGBUILD in the source tarball. I don't have a server to host the files, nor would I like to set up one (or register somewhere) to just store three kilobytes. So, my PKGBUILD has no url variable.
I've looked in the official guidelines, at the wiki, and it just says you have to put an URL. What should I do, then?
Thanks in advance. Best regards,
Kalrish