[Solved]Gnome Development releases on AUR

Glorf · 2011-09-14 16:02:35

Hello Arch users!
I have an idea: I want to provide development tree (now it's 3.1) of GNOME in AUR. I have some questions to Arch Developers and TU:
First: GNOME is a pack of software that is a depedency of lots of packages. Is it possible to create in AUR packages with the same names as in [extra]?
Without it, my idea is not possible to realize.
Two: I don't want to duplicate other projects. Is there anything (I don't know about it) similar to my idea?
Three: It's a question for Arch user: are you interested of using and testing GNOME unstable? (It's a lot of work and I must be sure that it's a good idea)
At this time it's all I want to say.
I am waiting for replies.
Glorf

Last edited by Glorf (2011-09-14 16:41:41)

karol · 2011-09-14 16:16:10

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126318 ?

Glorf · 2011-09-14 16:18:08

I'm sorry I didn't saw this topic

karol · 2011-09-14 16:24:46

Glorf wrote:

I'm sorry I didn't saw this topic

No big deal, I'm glad you asked first instead potentially wasting many hours :-)

wonder · 2011-09-14 16:43:07

here are my thoughts.

I hate seeing devel packages into aur because it makes my job harder when we provide official gnome-unstable versions because they mix AUR builds with official packages and is nightmare to debug.

Instead of pushing builds into aur, you should provide an unofficial repository, like kde-snapshots . Publish it on the forums and let other users use it. I won't provide any early development version from gnome until the last beta/first rc and i won't interfere in your work in any way. You will mostly help me by packaging early new modules and our users can have a clean update from your repo to official ones

Glorf · 2011-09-14 16:45:00

karol wrote:

Glorf wrote:
I'm sorry I didn't saw this topic
No big deal, I'm glad you asked first instead potentially wasting many hours :-)

Of course. It would be stupid.

EDIT: Thank you wonder. It was my greatest problem: I had not any "serious" packages to build in AUR. Now, I will create my own unofficial repo and put packages into it.
I'm programmer, but i must gain more packaging experience to build anything more "official"
Glorf.

Last edited by Glorf (2011-09-14 16:58:16)

wonder · 2011-09-14 17:03:37

Let me know if you need help.

From start, i want to advice you to use clean chroots when building packages. Read about it here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ean_Chroot to understand how it works. After that, you can easy do it faster when using helpers like extra-i686-build/extra-x86_64-build, available as well in devtools. You will also have to enable your repo above extra in your chroot to build the new packages against new versions.

Glorf · 2011-09-14 17:21:56

Can you recommend me any place to create my repository? I haven't got any server or website...

karol · 2011-09-14 17:36:44

Glorf wrote:

Can you recommend me any place to create my repository? I haven't got any server or website...

Some people use dropbox.

Glorf · 2011-09-14 17:40:15

OK, thank you for all, I need some time...

wonder · 2011-09-14 17:48:00

Now there isn't any point to provide such repo. You will end up duplicating my work from gnome-unstable. Maybe after gnome releases 3.3.1

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Glorf · 2011-09-14 18:46:01

wonder wrote:

Now there isn't any point to provide such repo. You will end up duplicating my work from gnome-unstable. Maybe after gnome releases 3.3.1

Now, i will create it only to learn more about building GNOME on Arch. I want to build working GNOME completely alone. If you want any help with packaging, I can tell you when I states that I have an appropriate level (I think 1-2 months).

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