Hi Ronald, On Sunday 24 August 2008 11:29:32 Ronald van Haren wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty new to Arch, so thought I'd say hi. > > > > Anyway, so just thought I'd say hi, and if anyone has any feedback on these > > first two packages, that'd be much appreciated. > > > Hi! ...and welcome
Thanks! > - The maintainer line is only for binary packages in one of our repos. > For packages in unsupported only use the contributor lines. > > - you don't need to put packages in makedepends if they are already in depends > > - if you patch, include the patch in the source line (and md5sums), > and issue the patch from $srcdir (see nextpoint) and not $startdir > > - to save you some typing in the future, you can use $srcdir and > $pkgdir instead of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg Thanks for the pointers. I've made some changes which I think reflect what you said. I have to say that although I've used Debian and Debian-based distros, SUSE and Gentoo for years off and on, and I've never quite managed to figure out how to create packages that work properly.... I like the Arch approach :-) Pete.
