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windows_me

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From: England

Registered: 2013-08-14

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kernel-fglrx-custom: Please could someone check/improve my PKGBUILD

I decided to share a script as it has been very useful to me.  I have never written a PKGBUILD before and it took some attempts to make a working one, so please could someone check the PKGBUILD over and let me know how horrible it is and what I should do differently

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kern … ustom-git/

It installs fine on my PC, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not using the PKGBUILD file properly.

Last edited by windows_me (2013-08-27 17:18:45)

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breed808

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From: Australia

Registered: 2012-10-27

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Re: kernel-fglrx-custom: Please could someone check/improve my PKGBUILD

There's a couple of things I would change:

1) The name doesn't really tell the user what the package is for. "kernel-fglrx-legacy" would probably be more helpful.

2) Rather than pulling a script that will then pull down the kernel package, why not use the existing kernel PKGBUILD in the ABS? You can easily modify that PKGBUILD to apply your script/patches.

windows_me

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From: England

Registered: 2013-08-14

Posts: 36

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Re: kernel-fglrx-custom: Please could someone check/improve my PKGBUILD

Thanks, two good ideas!  I'll do that when I have time and re-submit.

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[10:04:21] Time for weekly full server backup.
[10:04:25] Redirecting it to "/dev/null" to make it go faster.
[10:04:53] Backup done! Amazing how fast modern technology is!