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Amanda S

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[TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

Hello,

I put up a tutorial on how to get the latest version of Flightgear, and also get this amazing aircraft (among other features): https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/ … 4708_n.jpg

You can see it here: http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=22627

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tomk

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

FYI flightgear-git is available in the AUR.

Amanda S

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

FYI flightgear-git is available in the AUR.

And it's 2 years old.

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

FYI flightgear-git is available in the AUR.

And it's 2 years old.

I don't think you understand how -git packages work.

Amanda S

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

FYI flightgear-git is available in the AUR.

And it's 2 years old.

I don't think you understand how -git packages work.

Oh yeah. I sure don't.

Last edited by Amanda S (2014-04-07 00:32:28)

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WorMzy

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

To be fair, that PKGBUILD is pretty horribly outdated.

On the other hand, you're encouraging users to install packages outside of pacman, which isn't a great idea..

Ideally, you should contact the current AUR package maintainer, and get her/him to either update, or disown the package.

If they update, great, your tutorial becomes "1. download flightgear-git tarball, 2. extract flightgear-git tarball, 3. run makepkg on the extracted PKGBUILD, 4. use pacman to install the package built by step 3.".

I they don't upgrade, after two weeks you write to the AUR mailing list and request that they disown the package. You adopt the package, implement the changes you desire, and update your tutorial as per the previous paragraph.

Either way, everyone wins!

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Amanda S

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Re: [TUTORIAL] - Compiling FlightGear Git

To be fair, that PKGBUILD is pretty horribly outdated.

Yes. Some users have reported errors in it. A lot has changed since 2012, both on Arch and FG side.

On the other hand, you're encouraging users to install packages outside of pacman, which isn't a great idea..

No. The FlightGear build is done on a folder you desire. Mine is /home/junior/Documents/Games/FlightGear. All packages needed are installed via pacman, as you can see on my tutorial.

Ideally, you should contact the current AUR package maintainer, and get her/him to either update, or disown the package.

That would be great. But I'm not willing to maintain that either

If they update, great, your tutorial becomes "1. download flightgear-git tarball, 2. extract flightgear-git tarball, 3. run makepkg on the extracted PKGBUILD, 4. use pacman to install the package built by step 3.".

But it's been two years. I'm not sure the maintainer will continue updating.

Not to mention my tutorial doesn't say anything about "it's 100% required to do this way". Users are free to do either way they see fit. I like building as I described.

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