Excerpts from Andrew Antle's message of 2010-03-11 21:39:13 +0100: > Hello - > > There is a package named > [snd-ls](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15580) which is > orphaned and quite out of date. I would like to adopt it and update it > with the following PKGBUILD: > --- > # Maintainer: Andrew Antle <andrew dot antle at gmail dot com> > > pkgname=snd-gtk-jack > _pkgname=snd > pkgver=11.3 > pkgrel=1 > pkgdesc="A sound editor, with GTK+ and JACK enabled" > arch=('i686' 'x86_64') > license=('custom') > depends=('fftw' 'gamin' 'gsl' 'gtk2' 'jack' 'ladspa') > url="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/"; > source=(ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) > md5sums=('71168f92e77a14f80c6bcf5c1dd3df26') > > build() { > cd $srcdir/$_pkgname-$pkgver > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk --with-jack > make || return 1 > make prefix=$pkgdir/usr install > > rm -f $pkgdir/usr/share/$_pkgname/*.{fs,rb} > install -D -m 644 COPYING $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE > } > --- > > Do I need a TU to change the name of the package, and then I'll adopt > it and update it? Or should I just upload my PKGBUILD and ask for the > old, orphaned one to be deleted? > > P.S. The manpage is being installed -rwx-r-x-r-x, but in the tarball > it's -rw-r--r--. How can I fix this? Should I chmod it at the end of > build()? > > Thanks,
You can probably sed or patch the Makefile if it's doing something wrong. I have to do that quite often. Regards, Philipp
