2011/5/8 Taylor Venable <[email protected]>: > Hi everybody, I just started using Arch a few weeks ago, and I've been > mightily impressed. I want to help out, so I started looking in the > AUR for things to do. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a > package for the devel version of SWI-Prolog. The stable release is in > [community], and there are git snapshots in AUR, but they are old and > unowned. So I created a package for the development release. The devel > release is distinct from a git snapshot, which is why I created a > separate package, rather than updating the git snapshot one. Since > there are development releases, I don't personally find git snapshots > to be that useful. > > I wanted to make sure I'm doing this correctly, so if you have the > time to take a look for me I'd appreciate it. Any guidance will be > welcomed. I basically copied the [community] package's PKGBUILD and > modified the necessary properties. I only have x86_64 machines, so > I've not checked i686, but the resulting binary package does work for > me. Since I wanted to get a little review before submitting it, the > package can be found on my website: > http://metasyntax.net/swi-prolog-devel-5.11.20-1.src.tar.gz > > Thanks, > > -- > Taylor C. Venable > http://metasyntax.net/ >
Looks good - I didn't compile it though. Just fyi, you can share PKGBUILDs in mail list using http://pastebin.com/ with BASH syntax highlighting, instead of compressed tarball. I advise you to always run namcap after building packages and before uploading to AUR. It helps a lot! (Ex: to find missing dependency in "depends" array) See more in Namcap wiki. Welcome aboard! -- Rafael
