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petershinners

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Registered: 2014-09-19

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Review my first package, pyilmbase

I've added my first package to AUR, pyilmbase. It is the Python bindings to the ilmbase package, already a part of Extra.

I've read through several pages in the wiki with instructions. I found the process to be easy to follow, great job on whoever maintains the wikis. I still feel like I've left something out. Please let me know if I can clean this PKGBUILD up further.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyilmbase/

petershinners

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Registered: 2014-09-19

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Re: Review my first package, pyilmbase

I noticed my semi-fail already. Removed some cruft from the original PKGBUILD I had copied from ilmbase. "2" is already submitted.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Review my first package, pyilmbase

overall, it looks pretty good. Only issue I see off hand is that the pkgname is probably wrong, it should be python2-pyilmbase to indicate that this is a python2 library.

Edit: Tried building it, failed looking for numpy. Build it in a clean chroot to help you find missing deps.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ean_Chroot

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-09-19 20:56:17)

petershinners

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Registered: 2014-09-19

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Re: Review my first package, pyilmbase

Any tips for renaming a package in AUR? I'm guessing I retract the original and submit something new. Thanks for the review!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Review my first package, pyilmbase

You upload the new one, then use the "File Request" link on the right to request that the old one be either deleted or merged into the new one. Since there's no comments or votes, merging really wouldn't do anything, so you might as well just request that it be deleted.

That's assuming that I'm right and it's just python lib, not a program the user is going to run. As I said, I wasn't able to build it.