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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

Package requests

I'd love to see xvidenc (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidenc) and sauerbraten (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sauerbraten) in the main repos so I can just type "pacman -Sy xvidenc sauerbraten" and install them both. Any hope of this, ever?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Package requests

sauerbraten is in the community repo. xvidenc isn't even in the AUR yet, so someone (maybe you? ) needs to do that first (unless a dev suddenly takes a fancy to it).

General hint: please search all repos before making a package request.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

Re: Package requests

ya; i know sauerbraten is inthe aur...i was wondering if it would ever be in the main repo - the one you get when you search on the main page of archlinux.org...

STiAT

Member

From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: Package requests

Sauerbraten isn't simply in AUR, it's in community...

You can simply activate the [community] repository in your /etc/pacman.conf. The Trusted Users package sauerbraten for you, and you can install from [community] as from the main repos.

To search the repositories you have activated you can use pacman -Ss pkgname

I currently don't see a chance to get it in the main repository, unless we get someone who makes dedicated games packaging. Simply a matter of time (developers), but i think TUs is fine also .

Xvidenc? Anyone?

Yours,
Georg

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mrabbit

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Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 7

Re: Package requests

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

You may have to reboot after installing to get xvidenc in the path. Enjoy.

wizzomafizzo

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-12-05

Posts: 53

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Re: Package requests

PKGBUILD has been deleted from the AUR until you upload a *completely* rewritten one.

Points to consider before uploading a new PKGBUILD:
* /opt is NOT the place for a simple script, it's not there for your convenience and xvidenc should be moved to /usr like most other packages. This is top priority.
* As well as the move to /opt you must also remove the .install file you have created. It is pointless to export any variables from a .install script. This is the point of the shell script which is now useless anyway.
* You do not need to compress your own manpages, the makepkg script will do this automatically.
* Consider using the "install" command instead of the many lots of mkdir, cp/mv and chmod.
* If you ever do need to add an extra file (such as a patch) it must go in the source array, this is referring to the shell script you've created for /etc/profile.d.
* Finally, if possible, you should be using any included makefiles/install scripts rather than so many instance of cp. Even if patching a makefile is required it is still better than the method used now.

Please make all these changes before uploading a new PKGBUILD and include a valid email address on your account.

mrabbit

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Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 7

Re: Package requests

Yes, in future i'll just use the provided install script which shoves stuff in /usr/local/

Oh wait, isnt that disallowed!

Thanks for the other points.

neotuli

Lazy Developer

From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,204

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Re: Package requests

let's just ignore --prefix, shall we? And if it's broke... patch or sed are some good tools.

example:

sed -i 's/\/usr\/local/\/usr/g' <your broken file>

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mrabbit

Member

Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 7

Re: Package requests

Fixed, in my own way. I hope you don't shoot this one down, it's not a mess like the last one.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … hans=&SeB=

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: Package requests

Here's an even simpler version.
http://rafb.net/p/0VGC1p60.html

FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 313

Re: Package requests

I got inspired and did the other one h264enc as well. Hopefully it's alright as I took the inspiration from this thread.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=12121