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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Making my First AUR Package

Okay; so I'm attempting to make my first AUR package. Just wondering if I'm on the right track... I've got an AUR account now and below is my current PKGBUILD. I know I still need to generate the md5 sums, but otherwise do things look ok? Thanks!

# Maintainer: Anthony Karam <karam.anthony.k@gmail.com>
pkgname=yellowcot
pkgver=1.2.5
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="a free, lightweight, open-source, cross-platform, Qt-based multimedia flash card simulator"
arch=('any')
url="http://code.google.com/p/yellowcot"
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=('imagemagick', 'qt')
makedepends=()
optdepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
changelog=
source=('http://yellowcot.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2')
noextract=()
md5sums=() #generate with 'makepkg -g'

package() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
  make
  make install
}

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Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: Making my First AUR Package

Just follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages (and the part about build/package functions in particular). And you can leave out variables you don't need/use.

Stebalien

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Re: Making my First AUR Package

Get rid of the empty variables (`install=`, `replaces=()`, etc.). Also, building (make) should be done in a the build funciton, not package.

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GordonGR

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Registered: 2011-11-07

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Re: Making my First AUR Package

Also, you don't need a comma between the dependent packages, so that line should be

depends=('imagemagick' 'qt')

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DrZaius

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Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: Making my First AUR Package

yellowcot is GPL3 (or any later version), so I assume you should use:

license=('GPL3')