Greetings,

Truth be told, I received your e-mail some time after issuing mine. In
fact, together with the digest.
Sorry about that!

So that we're both on the same page, I will fork your repository (fork to
my GitHub account or simply clone it locally?)
and work with your files not to duplicate things. Then as you suggested,
issue pull requests.

I understand the thing with tarballs. I know I should not put them to a git
repo and I will not do so from now on.
I figured out a way of building a package for Arch Linux without a need for
the tarball, which I think is much cleaner anyhow.


I will update the README and include a .desktop file accordingly. It's fine
if both of those are in the build directory, right?
The .desktop file would be added together with the rest of the files
through "make install".

Per my repository, I think I will rename it, restructure it and use it for
hosting PKGBUILDs before they officially go to AUR.
Nothing more.

I think that's all for now :).

Best regards,
Andy

On 9 September 2016 at 14:54, Jehan <je...@zemarmot.net> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Le 2016-09-09 14:23, Andy Mender a écrit :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was successful in building an mrxvt package for Arch Linux. If it's
>> OK,
>> I would like to submit it to the Arch User Repository (AUR). To that
>> end I would also like
>> to add a .desktop file to the tarball as many desktops and window
>> managers use them.
>>
>
> Haven't you received my next email where I explained I created a proper
> git repository with the while history from our subversion repo (i.e. each
> SVN commit is now a git commit, and releases are now git tags, and the
> branches are there too)?
> Please make a "fork" of this repository and make pull requests from there:
> https://github.com/Jehan/mrxvt
>
> Yes we would definitely welcome a .desktop file. :-)
>
> I would then upload the modified tarball to the git repository I
>> created thus far.
>>
>
> I don't understand. Why do you save tarballs in the repository? As I said
> earlier, you should not do this. A source repository is there only to save
> sources. Tarballs should be saved in a download area. By the way, github
> creates tarball automatically for projects from tags. So uploading tarball
> is actually not even necessary at all.
>
> I also need to know what are the depends and build-depends of mrxvt. I
>> haven't seen
>>
>> this anywhere in the README. Should I assume they're the same as those
>> of rxvt?
>>
>
> You should be able to get the list of dependency by investigating the
> contents of the configure.ac.
> Then we would welcome a pull request to update README with your findings.
> :-)
>
> Of course, I can also do it, but I cannot promise to do it in a timely
> manner.
>
> Are the above points OK with you? :)
>>
>
> Yes, for .desktop file and README update. But please work from my mrxvt
> git repository for now.
> Thanks!
>
> Jehan
>
> Best regards,
>>
>> Andy Mender
>>
>> On 9 September 2016 at 07:02, Andy Mender <andymenderu...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> 1. I'm sorry for instantly creating a git repository from all of the
>>> files. I am still new to git
>>> and I'm not 100% accustomed to creating PKGBUILDs out of git
>>> repositories.
>>>
>>> 2. I have nothing against SourceForge or SVN. I used the latter
>>> shortly for getting FreeBSD
>>> kernel source tree snapshots.
>>>
>>> 3. I would be very happy if you could help me out with migrating the
>>> project from SVN to git.
>>> From the link you attached I read that it's not trivial.
>>>
>>> 4. For now, I cleaned up the entire repository and moved both the
>>> patch file and tarball
>>> to a separate directory so that I can still build the PKGBUILD for
>>> Arch Linux.
>>>
>>> I'm awaiting your further assistance ;).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Andy Mender
>>>
>>> On 9 September 2016 at 01:12, Jehan <je...@zemarmot.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> Le 2016-09-08 23:29, Andy Mender a écrit :
>>> Thank you kindly for your response. I set myself a git repository
>>> on
>>> GitHub at: https://github.com/AndyMender/mrxvt [1] [1]
>>>
>>> Please if the goal is actually to take maintainership of the
>>> project, you should keep its history pristine. So the git commit
>>> must reflect the SVN commits. Also the SVN branches should be moved
>>> as git branches. Same for tags.
>>> See:
>>>
>>> https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git
>>
>>> [2]
>>>
>>>
>>> If something is not in order, please do let me know. I still have
>>> much
>>>
>>> to learn in terms of GIT usage. Meanwhile, I shall proceed with
>>> building
>>> the AUR package(s).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Andy Mender
>>>
>>> On 8 September 2016 at 15:30, <gi1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:13:12PM +0200, Andy Mender wrote:
>>>
>>> I am in the process of preparing a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux to add
>>> mrxvt to AUR. I noticed that active development of this terminal
>>> emulator has somewhat ceased. Would it be possible for me to join
>>> development or fork the project to a git repository? I am far
>>> more
>>> familiar with git than with SourceForge.
>>>
>>
>>  That's Free Software, so there is no need to ask for forking. Though
>> it's always cool to say it of course. ;-)
>>  But if you mean rather to do a rebirth of the project (i.e. keeping
>> the name and simply moving the upstream to a new repository), then
>> that's worth discussing.
>>  I am in favor to say that we should see after a few commits at least,
>> and then if it looks like you are really giving a second life to
>> mrxvt, we should go for it and officially give maintainership.
>>
>> Dear Andy,
>>>>
>>>> I use mrxvt as my only terminal emulator on about 5 different
>>>> systems
>>>> (all Debian). I've also completely run out of free time, so I
>>>> will
>>>> only
>>>> ever fix bugs that affect me!
>>>>
>>>> I would love it if we moved from SVN to git! Sourceforge has git,
>>>> so we
>>>> needn't move away from SourceForge. But can move if the person
>>>> doing the
>>>> work chooses.
>>>>
>>>
>>  I would prefer not staying on Sourceforge after the unfortunate
>> events which happened (even though it changed ownership since then).
>> Anyway I see that you chose Github above.
>>
>> If you want admin access so you can udpate the website / tracker
>>>> let me
>>>> know. (I think Jehan volunteered to move everything to GitLab
>>>> sometime ago but he ran out of time as well...).
>>>>
>>>
>>  Yes I am very sorry for this. I really wanted to keep hacking mrxvt,
>> and really wanted to finish someday my work rather than keeping this
>> unfinished feeling. But now I see that I don't think I can make the
>> time for this anymore. It is not my main priority nowadays.
>>
>>  So it is better if someone takes the baby from us.
>>
>>  Since you seem a little unfamiliar with all git arcanes, I can at
>> least take the time to rewrite the history into a git repository on
>> github, then you can simply "fork" from it. Would you want this? But
>> please don't work from a broken history. It just won't do it!
>>
>>  Also why did you add release tarball and patch files directly into
>> the tree root?
>>  I see also you have committed a lot of generated files. Do not commit
>> generated files (sometimes there are acceptable reasons for some
>> generated files, but here this is not the case for all the build files
>> you added).
>>
>>  If you could please fix all these issues first? :-)
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  Jehan
>>
>> GI
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> <LIFE><!----Insert boring stuff here----></LIFE>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] https://github.com/AndyMender/mrxvt [1]
>>>
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>>
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