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pgoetz

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From: Austin, Texas

Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 355

AUR won't accept package submissions which don't include a url?

I created a package called vi-vim-symlink which conflicts with vi and links /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/view to vim as per other distributions.  I want to upload this to AUR both because I want to use it myself in various locations and because it might be useful to others.  All this package does is uninstall vi if installed, and link /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/vim.

Unfortunately AUR won't all me to upload, giving an error message "Missing url variable in PKGBUILD."

Is there a way around this?  I thought the url field was specifically for the source package; in this case, there is no source, since the package just creates links.  The package of course depends on vim.

I plan on doing several of these, the next being one to "debianize" apache, thus making it more user-friendly for people who support multiple domains on the same server.

Am I mis-using AUR?  I've read all the AUR documentation I could find in the Wiki and nothing suggests that there's anything wrong with a package that just makes changes to the filesystem without installing any binaries.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: AUR won't accept package submissions which don't include a url?

So add a URL. The URL variable has nothing to do with the source, that's the source array. You can just use aur.archlinux.org if you want.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-04-03 18:25:43)

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: AUR won't accept package submissions which don't include a url?

Don't think so... if your package just supplies a symlink and the conflicts statement, I don't think many archers will use it.  I made that symlink years ago

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: AUR won't accept package submissions which don't include a url?

Moving to AUR Issues...

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