the AUR binary repo

taylorchu · 2011-09-09 08:03:31

I created a AUR binary repo using dropbox. unlike other user repos, which only have few packages, this repo is made for "popular packages". A "popular package" is not DE-specific. It is released from well-known and active projects with 2+ developers and releases source at least once per year.

add this to pacman.conf
[march]
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/i686/

readme
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/i686/readme.txt

package list
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10527821/repo/i686/pkglst.txt

Last edited by taylorchu (2012-02-06 03:11:51)

tomk · 2011-09-09 08:23:50

I'd suggest you define "mass popular", so you don't get inundated with "please include foo" requests.

jakobm · 2011-09-09 11:33:20

While your intentions may be honest and I don't know you personally, I think many people are not comfortable with installing binary packages some "stranger on the internet" built.

estevao · 2011-09-09 14:05:46

jakobm wrote:

While your intentions may be honest and I don't know you personally, I think many people are not comfortable with installing binary packages some "stranger on the internet" built.

taylorchu · 2011-09-09 18:57:24

@everyone
good point. No one would trust a stranger.
The point is that every developers are strangers. You need to trust me just like how you trust them.

is there anyway to make me more trust-worthy?

Inxsible · 2011-09-09 18:59:36

taylorchu wrote:

is there anyway to make me more trust-worthy?

Maybe give us your name, address, credit card number and we will start trusting you as well.

lifeafter2am · 2011-09-09 19:02:55

taylorchu wrote:

@everyone
good point. No one would trust a stranger.
The point is that every developers are strangers. You need to trust me just like how you trust them.
is there anyway to make me more trust-worthy?

Yeah, but I can (and sometimes do) look at other people's source code. I can't decompile your binary to see if you did something to it.

karol · 2011-09-09 19:13:10

[archstuff]
# AUR's most voted and many bin32-* and lib32-* packages.
Server = http://archstuff.vs169092.vserver.de/$arch

has been with us for a long time.
It's always a matter of trust and I hope if somebody using this repo finds something suspicious he will share his findings with others.

tomk · 2011-09-09 20:34:21

Maintain the repo diligently, and expose your processes as much as possible. Invite the AUR contributors whose packages you are building to put a stamp of approval on your work.

Most important, though - be patient. Trust is earned, and it can take a while.

FInally, providing packages that aren't in any other similar repo could work for you. It is my experience that there are always users who are allergic to makepkg.

SS4 · 2011-09-09 21:15:48

Like tomk says trust is earned, by keeping a (relatively) up to date repo which is safe and has users will boost trust. There is certainly space for such a repo but since most of your packages are i686 then I can see it appealing to those with poor machines where makepkg (either manually or via an AUR helper) would take an age to build.

karol · 2012-01-31 15:21:54

I get a 404 from the repo

error: failed retrieving file 'aur.db' from dl.dropbox.com : The requested URL returned error: 404

but still can read the pkglst.txt and readme.txt.

Am I doing sth wrong?

taylorchu · 2012-01-31 19:23:35

change [aur] to [march]
I started to build my own PKGBUILD. i feel some PKGBUILDs in aur have low quality, and the only way to do this to do it myself

karol · 2012-01-31 19:53:10

taylorchu wrote:

change [aur] to [march]

Thanks.
Edited Unofficial User Repositories wiki article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=181431

taylorchu wrote:

i feel some PKGBUILDs in aur have low quality

No kidding :-P

Jristz · 2012-02-01 02:32:35

s only i686 right?

or i can change the final i686 for x86_64 ?.

and i read that chine gov block dropbox.....(i read only, not confirmation i hear)

Last edited by Jristz (2012-02-01 02:33:34)

taylorchu · 2012-02-01 05:13:00

some day when x64 is the main stream, i will switch entirely to x86_64.
basically, I already setup this dropbox that can handle building based on a list of pkg names, so building them is easy for me.

soon, USA gov will block dropbox too.

karol · 2012-02-01 13:36:12

Almost 2/3 Archers seem to be using 64-bit: https://www.archlinux.de/?page=UserStatistics

taylorchu · 2012-02-01 18:58:19

i mean "if (number of computers that have x64 hardware/ number of total computers) > 0.7"

ngoonee · 2012-02-02 01:01:53

taylorchu wrote:

i mean "if (number of computers that have x64 hardware/ number of total computers) > 0.7"

How many (personal) computers DON'T have x64 hardware? I doubt you could even buy the earliest x64 units anymore...

karol · 2012-02-02 12:50:48

ngoonee wrote:

taylorchu wrote:
i mean "if (number of computers that have x64 hardware/ number of total computers) > 0.7"
How many (personal) computers DON'T have x64 hardware? I doubt you could even buy the earliest x64 units anymore...

There are plenty of 32-bit-only computers on e-bay and the like.

x33a · 2012-02-02 18:07:00

Well, i have a 64-bit processor p4 630, but still use 32 bit arch, as i only have 1GB ram. And people have other reasons for sticking with 32-bit too, not ruling out ignorance though.

ngoonee · 2012-02-03 01:35:22

karol wrote:

ngoonee wrote:
taylorchu wrote:
i mean "if (number of computers that have x64 hardware/ number of total computers) > 0.7"
How many (personal) computers DON'T have x64 hardware? I doubt you could even buy the earliest x64 units anymore...
There are plenty of 32-bit-only computers on e-bay and the like.

Used or new? I'm surprised, even out here in the 3rd world I couldn't buy a new 32-bit-only in any of the stores. Didn't consider online dealers though....

karol · 2012-02-03 01:55:49

Mostly used Pentium 4s. Many almost a decade old.

Some Intel Atoms [1] are 32bit-only too.

[1] N270 & N280 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In … processors

taylorchu · 2012-02-06 03:07:09

none of these information is convincing. while new computers are only x64, there are a lot old x86 computers used in (my) homes and schools.
however, i think 2012 will not be the end of the world, but rather the end of x86; I will upgrade my system soon.

youarefunny · 2012-02-12 20:20:23

I like the idea. Unfortunately your dropbox got shut down If you can get something figured out I would love to use it though.

ushi · 2012-02-12 22:20:31

youarefunny wrote:

I like the idea. Unfortunately your dropbox got shut down If you can get something figured out I would love to use it though.

dropbox wrote:

Error (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

Your repo was too popular...

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