Grass and Qgis from Community repo to AUR

Question

I noticed that the Grass and Qgis packages disappeared from the community repo. Although they are still available through AUR, should I become worried since I use these programs almost daily on my Arch machines?

Answer 1

Hm, maybe I start first with 1 ct: I've modified the PKGBUILD of the Qgis  AUR package (pkgver = 1.7.3 and md5sums to the 1.7.3 tar.bz2 package).
The following PKGBUILD should work:
# Maintainer: Lantald
# Contributor: Thomas Dziedzic < gostrc at gmail >
# Contributor: dibblethewrecker dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.dot.org
# Contributor: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Eric Forgeot < http://esclinux.tk >
pkgname=qgis
pkgver=1.7.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Quantum GIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) that supports vector, raster & database formats'
url='http://qgis.org/'
license=('GPL')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
# update to http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Building_QGIS_from_Source#Overview
depends=('libmysqlclient' 'postgresql-libs' 'sqlite3' 'jasper' 'curl' 'qt' 'python2' 'python2-qt' 'giflib' 'xerces-c' 'cfitsio' 'qwt5' 'gdal' 'flex' 'bison')
makedepends=('cmake' 'grass' 'gsl' 'postgis' 'netcdf' 'fcgi' 'python2-sip' 'txt2tags')
optdepends=('postgis: postgis support and SPIT plugin'
'fcgi: qgis mapserver'
'python2-sip: python-support'
'grass: grass plugin'
'gsl: georeferencer ')
options=('!makeflags')
source=("http://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
'qgis.desktop')
md5sums=('e1b3b1f33ea8d648bde0eddf54f7eb90'
'8ab66039f2aba519b92f52272ec3c13e')
build() {
# Fix insecure RPATH is weird, but just works ;)
# echo "os.system(\"sed -i '/^LFLAGS/s|-Wl,-rpath,.\+ ||g' gui/Makefile core/Makefile\")" >> python/configure.py.in
#cd qgis-${pkgver}
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../qgis-${pkgver} \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DGRASS_PREFIX=/opt/grass \
-DQGIS_MANUAL_SUBDIR=share/man \
-DQWT_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/qwt5 \
-DQWT_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libqwt5.so \
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so \
-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2 \
-DPYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_DIR=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/python2.7/
make
package() {
cd build
make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install
# create a more user-friendly application name link
ln -s /usr/bin/qgis $pkgdir/usr/bin/quantum-gis
# install some freedesktop.org compatibility
install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/qgis.desktop \
${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/qgis.desktop
This build also eliminated a conflict between Qgis 1.7.2 and the Grass-svn build I got this morning.
For the time being all the bleeding cutting edge packages are working!
I tried to post a comment on the AUR page but apparently that needs another subscription...
Keep things up! "GIS Archers UNITE!!!"