On 2 August 2012 12:45, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote: > On 08/01/2012 09:10 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: >> Also what about getting these packages in the AUR? that is the first >> step to getting them included in the general arch repos. > > Yes, that is the goal, but I want to have everything building and the PKGBUILD > sources in pristine shape before putting them in AUR. What I've learned over the > past two years is that TDE rarely builds on Arch for more than a couple of weeks > before Arch breaks it by pulling in the most recent upstream packages. Most > recently ffmpeg which broke k9copy that I still have not been able to fix. It's > doable, but I want to have a set of R14 tarballs to build against before AUR > packages are submitted. Currently when people have to build against the GIT > tree, that just overly complicates the build scripts and puts a hell of a load > on the GIT server. ok > It's much better to finish out the R14 development, get to the point we have > official release tarballs, then finalize the AUR src packages and then submit. > Even then, we will need a team to commit to helping fix packages that break due > to upstream changes... > Count me in on helping out after R14 is done. I'll finally make the transit from debian to arch for my daily development workstation. Calvin