On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Alasdair Haswell wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently joined this list and thought I should introduce myself. > I'm a linux sysadmin for a fairly large hosting company and have been > using linux for around eight years now. I've been running Arch for a > little over a year and it's quickly become my distro of choice. The AUR > is an exceptional resource and I've decided to contribute some of my > time towards maintaining some packages. > Welcome!
> I've picked up an orphan; rng-tools and updated it to the latest > version. It's my first attempt at writing a PKGBUILD, any > comments/suggestions would be welcome. > I did not install/test the package. One tiny thing though: Usage of $startdir is deprecated, use $srcdir and $pkgdir instead of $startdir/src and $startdir/pkg. > I'm also looking at updating the > meanwhile library, it looks to have been out of date for some years now. > I've emailed the maintainer with no response - how would I go about > taking over this package? > Send an orphan request to this list, containing the link to the package. One of the TUs will orphan it if applicable. > Regards, > Ali. > best, david
