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cng

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Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Hi there-

I thought it was time to stop by the forums and say hi.  :-)

My name is Chess Griffin and I've been lurking here for a long time.  I've been using *nix systems for about 7 years now, mostly Slackware, but also Debian and some others, such as Libranet back in the day.  I've been using Arch for about 3-4 years and needless to say, Arch rocks.  heh.

As far as projects go, I do the Linux Reality podcast and enjoying packaging and contributing to various operating systems.  I maintain some Slackware Slackbuild scripts at Slackbuilds.org, one package in the main Debian archive, and two FreeBSD ports.  I also contribute documentation and patches to FreeBSD.  I'd say Arch, FreeBSD, and Slackware are my favorite OS's and those are the ones I use at home.

I've been interested in helping out with Arch development for awhile now.  Although I used to program a _long_ time ago and can write bash scripts and know a bit of Python, I'm not really a programmer.  So far, I have picked up one package in the AUR to maintain (bip) which I also maintain for FreeBSD.  I'd like to pick up some more orphaned packages as well.  I have an x86_64 machine and as several i686 so I can build/test packages for both.

One tool I use on FreeBSD is called Tinderbox, which is a set of Perl scripts that provide a way of queueing up ports to compile into packages on a build machine.  I use it to build packages for several FreeBSD machines I manage.  It has a nice web-based front-end and works well.  Anyway, Aaron pointed me to Pacbuild, which seems very similar.  I grabbed the latest git and have been poking at Pacbuild over the last several days and keeping some notes.  I tweaked the PKGBUILD to build a package and have been testing it out.  The only issues I've run into is with the waka chroot -- it seems strawberry should build the chroot if it's not there, but for some reason that's not happening on my machine so no builds occur.

In any event, Pacbuild interests me and based on Aaron's Status Report, I would like to help out with Pacbuild and would be happy to run build machine instances, etc.  I plan to update the wiki once I get it all working.  I'd also like to help write a small script or something the user can run after installing Pacbuild to set everything up automagically.

I guess that's it for now.  I hang out in IRC with the nick 'cng' so maybe I'll see you all there.

Last edited by cng (2008-01-10 22:41:05)

tomk

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Welcome to the forum, cng. Great intro too - not just "Hi, I'm here", but also "and I've jumped straight into helping out with an Arch project". Good stuff.

Looking forward to the wiki update - see you around.

Misfit138

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Welcome to the forums, and hello.

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skottish

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Holy motivated introduction Batman!

Welcome.

Last edited by skottish (2008-01-11 00:32:04)

Rumor

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Heya Chess. I'd say welcome, but since you've been here for such a long time, you probably already know where the towels are and where Cactus hides his tacos. Welcome anyway.

I listened to Linux Reality from around episode 4 through the rest of your first year. When a post here from 5x5 mentioned that you'd covered Arch, I went and found it and I remember thinking your podcast had really gained some nice polish. I've since finished listening to the backlog of episodes that I'd missed.

It's great to have you here contributing to Arch!

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pressh

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Hi Chess!

you probably already know where the towels are and where Cactus hides his tacos.

I doubt that! Cactus is known to be very good in hiding his tacos. It is told that sometimes he even takes his tacos with him in his underwear.

Last edited by pressh (2008-01-11 13:28:49)

schivmeister

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Hello, it's nice to see this kind of first post! Are you Aaron Griffin's sibling?

Last edited by schivmeister (2008-01-11 15:37:22)

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cng

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

Hello, it's nice to see this kind of first post! Are you Aaron Griffin's sibling?

Heh, no relation AFAIK.  But it is a great last name, dontchya think?  :-)

And now, back to looking for those tacos ...

cactus

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

what?
After my tacos already!?

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tomk

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

pacbuild first - then tacos.

cng

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Re: Introduction, Pacbuild, and AUR

*immediately drops the tacos and whistles innocently*