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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Would like some advice as I try and create a PKGBUILD

I saw a demo of an app today called Duck Launcher and I'd really like to try it out.  The problem is that it is very debian centric and, currently, the source only builds to a .deb

Given that it's only available in git, my starting place is, presumably, the PKGBUILD-git.PROTO file - which is fine.

My question at this stage is, should I build it to a deb, which there are ;apparently; already scripts for and then convert to an arch pkg, or should I try and create an arch pkg type structure?

Or should I just experiment and see what works!?

Any other pieces of advice welcome as well. This is not my first PKGBUILD, but it looks like it could well be my most ambitious.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Would like some advice as I try and create a PKGBUILD

You link to the youtube vid, but not to the source code?

While we're waiting for more useful info, here's a few answers to your questions:

- no, your starting place is the VCS PKGBUILD Guidelines wiki page, where you will find a nice pink warning about those .proto files being way out of date.
- build an arch package obviously. Converting debs to Arch packages is most definitely a last resort, when there's absolutely no other option.
- Experiment, of course. Fail spectacularly, clean up the mess, try again, fail again.... etc. Imagine the fun you'll have!

phunni

Member

From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 794

Re: Would like some advice as I try and create a PKGBUILD

My apologies, of course the source link would be useful:
https://github.com/the-duck/launcher