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Meskarune

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2009-03-21

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First AUR package...

I discovered a really great GTK based IRC client. http://loqui.good-day.net/

So I made this PKGBUILD:

# Maintainer: Dolores Portalatin <meskarune@gmail.com>

pkgname=loqui
pkgver=0.4.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A lightweight gtk+ IRC client"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://loqui.good-day.net/"
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=('gnet>=2.0.0' 'gtk+>=2.20.1'  'glib2' )
makedepends=()
source=(http://loqui.good-day.net/src/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
noextract=()
md5sums=(f6f603354f3eb65421b9e9b93feb2eab) #generate with 'makepkg -g'

build() {
  cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
}

The only issue is that the program doesn't send a .desktop file to /usr/share/applications so that an icon shows up in application menu's

How would I get it to do that?  (I don't think the regular install creates this file)

Also, it would be great if anyone could let me know if anything is missing from the PKGBUILD. I want to submit it to AUR, and its the first time I've done that with a package.

Last edited by Meskarune (2010-05-14 19:57:15)

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wonder

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Re: First AUR package...

depends=('gnet>=2.0.0' 'gtk+>=2.20.1' )

gtk+ doesn't exist in our repos and it should be gtk2. If they didn't provide such .desktop you should create it and install it in /usr/share/applications

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Re: First AUR package...

make a .desktop file and install(1) it. And also submitt it upstream, the author might just happen to include it.

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Xyne

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Re: First AUR package...

You can also remove empty variables form the PKGBUILD (groups, makedepends, etc)

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Meskarune

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From: Helsinki, Finland

Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 361

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Re: First AUR package...

Ok, this seems to work:

# Maintainer: Dolores Portalatin <meskarune@gmail.com>

pkgname=loqui
pkgver=0.4.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A lightweight gtk+ IRC client"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://loqui.good-day.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gnet>=2.0.0' 'glib2')
source=(http://loqui.good-day.net/src/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=(f6f603354f3eb65421b9e9b93feb2eab)

build() {
  cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1
  install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/$pkgname.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop
}

edit: Looks like this package exists in AUR already: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6667
but it doesn't show up when I search for it in yaourt or clyde...?

Last edited by Meskarune (2010-05-14 21:25:08)

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evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: First AUR package...

it showed up when i just searched for it in clyde, how were you searching for it?

either way, no harm in getting a little packaging experience under the belt.

Daenyth

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 1,244

Re: First AUR package...

The configure line should have "|| return 1" in case it fails.

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