Package missing from AUR

m.usama951 · 2016-05-19 15:02:39

Hi
I have reinstalled my arch after two years. In my previous installaion, I had installed a package name "zekr" from AUR. Now after new installation when I am searching AUR for package, its not there. It is removed from AUR. Although zekr can be downloaded from its website but its not my preferred way. My preferred way of installation is from AUR which was smooth and seamless last time. So my question is that now the package is missing from AUR, can it be found anywhere on any arch repo? or is there any other AUR backup which contains all the packages? Or any other way to install it using packer?
Regards

graysky · 2016-05-19 15:03:44

Have you looked in the AUR (pre version 4) archive? I will edit this post with the link in a few.

EDIT: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … 3_packages

Last edited by graysky (2016-05-19 15:04:19)

m.usama951 · 2016-05-20 04:47:50

graysky wrote:

Have you looked in the AUR (pre version 4) archive? I will edit this post with the link in a few.
EDIT: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … 3_packages

Thanks. I have found zekr at:
http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/tree/zekr
and downloaded PKGBUILD and zekr.desktop. However 'makepkg -si' is giving following error:

==> ERROR: license should be an array

I googled and found that at AUR some people reported that error for some other packages but with no solution.
Any help here?
Regards

eschwartz · 2016-05-20 05:35:09

See the PKGBUILD documentation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

Recent versions of makepkg enforce using the correct variable types -- no using a regular variable where an array is expected, or vice versa.
I have no idea why other people didn't find that solution, the error message itself is rather explicit.

mis · 2016-05-20 07:50:42

license=('GPL')

m.usama951 · 2016-05-20 11:05:53

mis wrote:

license=('GPL')

Thanks a lot.
Thanks everyone for helping me. It is a much needed software

graysky · 2016-05-21 00:06:28

If you fixed the PKGBUILD, consider submitting it to the AUR if you haven't already.

m.usama951 · 2016-05-21 10:14:09

graysky wrote:

If you fixed the PKGBUILD, consider submitting it to the AUR if you haven't already.

Yes, it will be good to have zekr back in AUR because as a Teacher I frequently recommend my students to consult zekr for research purpose. But I dont have sufficient skills to upload it at AUR (I tried to follow AUR guidance but some steps are difficult). Can you (or someone) else do it for us? Or provide me guidance to do that?
PS: Created a GIT Repo (https://github.com/musama951/zekr) but still not able to upload it
May be because I am a researcher of humanities, and not a skilled programmer.
Thanks

Last edited by m.usama951 (2016-05-21 10:17:06)

graysky · 2016-05-21 10:19:12

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … g_packages

m.usama951 · 2016-05-21 10:27:29

graysky wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … g_packages

Yes. Already did that, check my bash history:

echo "# zekr" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/musama951/zekr.git
git push -u origin master

And as a result got this:
https://github.com/musama951/zekr

m.usama951 · 2016-05-21 10:37:29

I think I got it
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zekr/
But needs to be varified that if its correct.

graysky · 2016-05-21 10:40:20

Looks good. You might consider quoting $srcdir.

m.usama951 · 2016-05-21 11:11:35

graysky wrote:

Looks good. You might consider quoting $srcdir.

WoW... it means one can publish a package entirely by chance. I was thinking that there would be horrible mistakes in it
Sorry not able to understand by 'quoting #srcdir", do you mean commenting this line in PKGBUILD?
One more thing, I was inspecting some other package at AUR and noticed that many packages contain a .gitignore file. How can I determine what to include in my .gitignore file.
Regards

Lone_Wolf · 2016-05-21 12:47:01

Many people seem to build packages in the folder used for the git repo or store non-aur files there also.
If the git repo folder only has the files in it needed for the aur, you don't need a .gitignore file.

$srcdir content can have spaces, not all programs know how to handle paths with spaces in them.
By puttting double quotes around the variable, bash will do something called variable expansion (atleast i think that's the name used) to ensure the correct path is used.

m.usama951 · 2016-05-21 15:18:55

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Many people seem to build packages in the folder used for the git repo or store non-aur files there also.
If the git repo folder only has the files in it needed for the aur, you don't need a .gitignore file.
$srcdir content can have spaces, not all programs know how to handle paths with spaces in them.
By puttting double quotes around the variable, bash will do something called variable expansion (atleast i think that's the name used) to ensure the correct path is used.

Thanks a lot

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