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thiagowfx

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Registered: 2013-07-09

Posts: 586

arch-firefox-nightly-search (Review Request)

Hello there,

So, I created my first PKGBUILD script, which you may find here. It is based on the arch-firefox-search official package, as one could imagine.

There are just two little (main?) differences:

• the AUR search now sorts (by default) by the number of votes of each package

• it works on firefox nightly (the official package only works on the stable firefox)

Please let me know if you find any problems or have any suggestions to it.

Also, is there an easy way I could determine the installed Firefox Nightly version of the user, instead of hardcode it?? The problem with hardcoding is that it would obligate me to often update the PKGBUILD, what is really unnecessary, since the package wouldn't change with a new version of firefox.

I thought of using pacman -Q plus Unix tools (echo, cut, ...), is that elegant?

Also, please notice that the current path of the firefox-nightly package from the AUR is /opt/firefox-30.0a1. When nightly gets updated to 31, resulting on the change of its installation path to /opt/firefox-31.0, what should I do? Am I going to have to update my PKGBUILD too?

Thank you.

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