On 10/14/19 4:48 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella via arch-general wrote: > I want to suggest including all or some of these in the package guidelines > <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines>, or the > appropriate documentation: > > > *New items:* > > - Write your PKGBUILD in a way that will work by itself as long as possible, > for example by automatically generating the list of archives instead of hard > coding them. >
What
> - As far as practicable don't work around bugs on the package, but fix them
> as upstream as possible.
>
> - In package() "mv" locally built files, and "cp" or "install" the rest.
>
?
> - In pkgdesc don't describe what the package is, but rather what it does.
> Using a natural wording that any person will understand. For example don't
> say "GTK UVC video viewer", but "Captures image from a webcam".
>
This is wrong
> - If the license is a Creative Commons one, write it like "CCPL:by-sa".
>
>
> *Modifications:*
>
> - Start new variables and functions names with a capital letter, to avoid
> clashes with those in makepkg itself.
>
This directly conflicts with our existing package etiquette[1]
> - In pkgver(), any printf() line shall finish with the new line char (\n).
>
>
> *Useful functions:*
>
> In package(), you can set permissions recursively with:
> find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx {} \;
> find "${pkgdir}" -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r {} \;
> chmod +x "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${Name}"
>
This is universally stupid. Sometimes permissions exist for a reason...
> In pkgver(), you can get the version from a web-site with something like this:
> curl --silent "${url}" | grep "${string}" | cut --delimiter='"' --fields=1
>
No, you may not curl a remote for a version string. pkgver is ran *after*
source acquisition.
>
> (Reply to this email including me on the recipients list, or I won't receive
> it)
Too bad(?!) - Subscribe to the mailing list if you wish to partake or start
threads like this...
Please don't make up new guidelines that are both nonsensical and in direct
conflict of existing guidelines.
[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_etiquette
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