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#1 Yesterday 19:47:20
- summers
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Making corrections to a AUR package
Hi:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … h=uefitool
builds a very old UEFITool - the latest one is far better.
I'm happy to clone the PKGBUILD and submit a change - but how do I do that?
I guess I'm just missing something obvious ...
David.
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#2 Yesterday 19:49:51
- seth
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
The AUR uses git but isn't like github where you could fork repos.
Comment and/or post a patch at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefitool but nb. there're other variants, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=uefitool
You might be thinking of uefitool-ng?
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#3 Today 02:32:43
- loqs
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
Please check if you can create an account on AUR at the moment if you do not have one already as account creation may still be disabled after recent malicious incidents and without one you would be wasting time working on the issue.
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#4 Today 05:18:34
- cryptearth
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
given that both https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefitool and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefitool-ng have the same maintainer and the -ng showed up the same timestamp the non-ng got last updated https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefitool seem to got abandoned in favor of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefitool-ng and hence the "classic"/"old"/non-ng should no longer be used anyway
-> as the upstream "self-fork" is about a year old now: seems whereever you got uefitool from in the first place is at least as old
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#5 Today 08:23:57
- seth
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
In lieu of an AUR account one could contact the maintainer via the mail address in the PKGBUILD
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#6 Today 12:27:14
- ismailarilik
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
Please read this if you have not: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_U … ut-of-date
Generally if an AUR package is out-of-date you can/should flag it as out-of-date if you were registered and logged in (As I know it is impossible to register an account nowadays.). You can also try to reach out to the maintainer and after two weeks, if there is no response you can file an orphan request so package may be set to the orphaned status and anyone interested can adopt and update the package.
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#7 Today 12:28:38
- summers
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
Ah yes its uefitool-ng that is the right package. I'd updated to release A76. And I prefer making it clear that it is build in a separate directory that the source, configuring with:
qmake ../uefitool/UEFITool/uefitool.pro
And making with:
make
Rather than using cmake, but I guess this could just be personal taste....
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#8 Today 15:46:39
- seth
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Re: Making corrections to a AUR package
\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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