Organizing package building wiki entries

Right now we have three separate wiki entries that describe the package building in Arch:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … _Standards
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The … guidelines
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS … _Explained
I started maintaining packages a few months ago, and while I was learning how to build packages I was getting a little tired of having to sift through multiple resources with duplicate information. This is kind of a shameless plug, but I took the entries, updated and re-wrote them:
http://www.bytetrap.com/blog/2008/09/16 … rch-linux/
Thoughts? Every factoid mentioned in those three wiki entries -should- be mentioned in my post. If I get enough thumbs up I'd be happy re-organize the current three wiki entries into the single entry that I compiled.

btartsa wrote:
I noticed in the "preparing the file'" section you recommend using pacman -Up (package file). What is the benefit of using the -p flag?
-p, --file
Signifies that the package supplied on the command line is a file and not an entry in the database. The file will be decompressed and queried. This is useful in combination with --info and --list.
I'm just wondering because I've never used it. Nice work!
I took that line pretty much verbatim from the wiki entry, but the -p flag I believe ensures that you install the package that you built instead of the pre-built binary from the pacman database. So this only really applies/comes in handy if you build a package from the PKGBUILD file when the binary already exists, preventing you from installing the binary.
Also, I don't think this is usually a big problem either because the package you build is usually named pkgname.tar.gz, while when you query a package via pacman, you just use the pkgname. So you usually just do pacman -U pkgname.tar.gz instead of pacman -U pkgname anyway. If for some reason your package file was named pkgname, you would have to use the -p flag to ensure that you install your pakcage instead of the pre-built binary.

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[wiki][proposal] Rewrite of the "Router" wiki entry

This is a proposal to establish rewrite and restructure the entire "Router" wiki article located at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NAT … connection (The wiki entry "Router" currently redirects here).
There has been much discussion of a rewrite in the #archlinux irc channel and a small number of users, including myself, wish to heavily rewrite and reorganize the information located at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NAT … connection and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NAT … d_features.
The current articles, while informative, are extremely lengthy and provide large amounts of unnecessary information when creating an Arch Linux router. Some of the steps provided in the entries above are hard to follow, are provided out of order, and require you to unnecessarily browse off-site links for one or two lines of additional text to be added to a configuration file instead of providing them for you. This can be very confusing or misleading to someone not familiar with setting up this type of system.
The rewritten entries would be divided into the following wiki entries - Router: Basic (redirected from "Router"), Router: Advanced.
The rewritten entries would contain similar information to the original entries, however with some sections removed, reorganized or relocated and easier to follow. This would be able to ensure accessibility and usability of the Router entry for novice users, and at the same time allow more advanced users to additionally tweak their router.
Due to the large amount of information provided by both existing entries, a third "Draft" entry would be proposed - Router: Draft.
This would be a public wiki entry where those who wish to contribute to the rewrite of these articles can join and provide feedback to the existing status of the rewrite project. This would allow the information currently present on the existing pages to still be usable while the rewrite is taking place. Once the draft has been deemed usable enough to replace the existing entries, the draft page will be removed and the existing entries will be replaced by the newly rewritten router entries.
Note: It came to my attention that it may just be wiser creating the Router: Basic and Router: Advanced pages and doing the rewrite on each respective page instead. During the time of the rewrite, an "article in progress" notice can be displayed informing users that the article itself may not be ready and should be followed at their own risk. As it stands, Router: Draft will be unnecessary.
Those of us who are adament about rewriting these entries are curious to hear the community response to this proposal. We are going to begin rewriting the entries very soon and would like others to contribute or review our works on a regular basis. Please let us know what you think, as we would like to hear the community suggestions and insight on this proposal.
Last edited by roadmap (2009-04-14 10:36:42)

u_no_hu wrote:
@roadmap..
Nice work guys...
One suggestion... dont include unnecessary(ie details available on other parts of wiki) details...
IMO you can nuke this whole part without any loss of content because anybody who is going to install arch on a router will already be familiar with pacman and upgrading etc.
On a default installation, Arch Linux does not come with what you will need to configure an Arch Linux router. You will need to install some additional packages to make Arch Linux function how we intend to. For this task, we will be using the package manager pacman.
Tip: If you want more information on pacman and its uses, please see the Pacman wiki page
[edit] Upgrading Your Packages
If you have not done so already, you should go ahead and update your installation to the latest packages. You can do this by running the following command from the command line.
pacman -Syu
Allow it to proceed and once it has finished, continue to the next part of this tutorial.
This is just my opinion and people may differ, but i find lot of wiki pages (xorg/beginners guide to mention two) to be bloated with excess info instead of linking to relevant part of wiki.
I have thought about your inquiry and my response is hard to put it in perspective. I do agree with your philosophy about the fact that the specific section is unnecessary. However, those who may be attempting to setup an Arch Router may not have any internet access, outside of the Arch Router machine itself, at the time they are following the tutorial.
You have to remember that this is a tutorial/howto, and a good tutorial should contain all information necessary to complete the desired task. If someone should desire more information about a particular application or have a differing situation to the one that the tutorial is trying to achieve, then linking them to more information about each application may provide additional help to their situation.
That was one of my complaints with the previous Router entry: it would send you off site to find one or two lines of config that could have just very well been included into the original article. It expected you to have full internet access while telling you flat out to tear apart your network in the process, and by doing so destroyed parts of its usability.
With that being said, you have to remember that the current state of Router: Basic is incomplete and if anything a "draft". Once its complete, it will probably end up going through a few more revisions to ensure all the information provided is correct and necessary. You are more than welcome to add your own changes and information to it. The more help and input the better the article will be. So if you do feel like that section should be removed, feel free to change it at your leisure.

[Solved] Visual Boy Advance: Wiki-Entry out of date

Hi!
The Wiki-Entry for VBA is out of date. The package isn't longer available and has been removed. The only thing I could find now is the replacement (?) vba-m in the AUR.
Last edited by Thorsten Reinbold (2013-05-16 08:30:32)

HalosGhost wrote:
On a related note. community/mednafen uses VBA as its GBA emulation backend, so just use that.
All the best,
-HG
Thanks for that. But mednafen isn't that comfortable to use. If you just wan't to use GB/GBA-Games, vba-m is far better to use (just my opinion).
I will update the Wiki-Entry now.
Edit: Done.
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OpenG Package Builder tool 0.1-alpha6 released

Hello Everyone,
There is a new version of the OpenG Package
Builder tool (ogrsc_package_builder package) available. This tool
allows you to create package files that can be installed using VI Package Manager.
This release resolves an issue caused by a LabVIEW 8.x bug with handling variant coercion (see here for bug details).
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Bob Y. wrote:
OK, but what is it and why should I use it? What need does it fulfill? I have been unable to find much documentation for this at the wiki page and maybe a couple of paragraphs here would help.
Thanks,
Bob Young
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OpenG Builder 1.0 Documentation
Thanks,
-Jim

OpenG Package Builder Release 0.1-alpha, Build packages for OpenG Commander

You can finally build Your own OpenG Commander packages (.ogp files) using the intuitive user interface of the OpenG Package Builder.
Read more about it, here.

Bob Y. wrote:
OK, but what is it and why should I use it? What need does it fulfill? I have been unable to find much documentation for this at the wiki page and maybe a couple of paragraphs here would help.
Thanks,
Bob Young
Hi Bob,
Yes, this info got burried. Basically, it's a tool for building LabVIEW-based software products. It is highly flexible/extensible and tries to fill the holes left by LabVIEW's built-in Application Builder. Here are some good links to more info:
OpenG Builder Homepage
OpenG Builder 1.0 Documentation
Thanks,
-Jim

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fix packaged build file for textlayout to accommodate the recent changes made to that project
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Warning: Using Cpufreq in order to handle your CPU power schemes, that means, controlling it through software, IS NOT suggested for use since modern CPUs are capable of powersaving through their BIOSes.
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Last edited by panosk (2010-10-01 11:07:10)

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Delete wiki entries

Does anyone know how to delete wiki entries from the OS file system command line? My wiki got spammed, and I have lots of entries to delete. I don't want to have to open each entry and click on -, and specifiy to 'permantantly delete' each spam entry.
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[SOLVED] How to patch package build (uzbl-git)

Hello,
I am experiencing a similar issue while building uzbl-git as reported here in the last few posts https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php? … 2&detail=1
When running "makepkg -s", I receive the following error:
creating /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/uzbl
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/uzbl': Permission denied
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PKGBUILD diff:
======
14,15c14,15
< source=()
< md5sums=()
> source=('Makefile.patch')
> md5sums=('1fb21dc7128e11d9a91351702c5fee53')
45a46,48
>
> # fix python site-packages installation
> patch -p0 < "$srcdir/Makefile.patch"
=====
Makefile.patch:
=====
--- Makefile 2012-06-26 15:00:00.017779376 +0000
+++ Makefile.fixed 2012-06-26 14:54:24.969594488 +0000
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
PYTHON=python3
PYTHONV=$(shell $(PYTHON) --version | sed -n /[0-9].[0-9]/p)
COVERAGE=$(shell which coverage)
+PYINSTALL_EXTRA=--prefix="${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}"
# --- configuration ends here ---
=====
Could someone enlighten me on how this patch should be applied? I have looked over the patching page on the arch wiki, but am still not sure. Should those lines be added at lines 14,15 and 45,46,48 in the PKGBUILD, respectively, and should I then create the file makefile.patch in the same directory with the second part of the code? It is unclear to me as both source=() and md5sums=() are not anywhere in the PKGBUILD, so I can't remove these lines as the patch suggests if I am reading it correctly (I have no coding experience).
Someone posted an alternative patch, I am note sure if this is any easier to apply (https://github.com/keis/uzbl/commit/d4c … 6874dda0ea)
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by OLSHoya (2012-09-11 19:51:24)

PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Mark Foxwell <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]>
# Contributer: Brendan Taylor <[email protected]>
# Contributer: L42y <[email protected]>
pkgname=uzbl-git
pkgver=20120212
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="All uzbl web interface tools: latest from the git master branch"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('libwebkit3' 'socat' 'zenity' 'xclip' 'dmenu' 'python2' 'pygtk')
makedepends=('git' 'pkgconfig' 'libwebkit>=1.2.0')
source=('Makefile.patch')
md5sums=('1fb21dc7128e11d9a91351702c5fee53')
provides=('uzbl-core' 'uzbl-browser' 'uzbl-tabbed')
conflicts=('uzbl-core' 'uzbl-browser' 'uzbl-tabbed' 'uzbl-experimental-git')
_gitroot="git://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git"
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msg "The local files are updated."
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msg "Starting make..."
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cd "$srcdir/$_gitname-build"
patch -p0 < "$srcdir/Makefile.patch"
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sed -i 's_#!/usr/bin/env python$_#!/usr/bin/env python2_' $file
done
sed -i -e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/python$|#!/usr/bin/python2|" \
-e "s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2|" \
$(find ./ -name '*.py')
make
package(){
cd "$srcdir/$_gitname-build"
make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr install
Makefile.patch
--- Makefile 2012-06-26 15:00:00.017779376 +0000
+++ Makefile.fixed 2012-06-26 14:54:24.969594488 +0000
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
PYTHON=python3
PYTHONV=$(shell $(PYTHON) --version | sed -n /[0-9].[0-9]/p)
COVERAGE=$(shell which coverage)
+PYINSTALL_EXTRA=--prefix="${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}"
Save them both in the same folder and run makepkg. After you save Makefile.patch run "md5sum Makefile.patch" and update the md5sums array in the PKGBUILD if you need to.

Question about nouveau wiki entry (keep both drivers installed?)

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Last edited by dodo3773 (2013-12-10 20:28:39)

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10/28/2014 09:42:55 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Media_db.sig)
10/28/2014 09:42:55 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Setup.xml)
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10/28/2014 09:44:27 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied Setup file/folder (resources)
10/28/2014 09:44:27 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (Set-up.exe)
10/28/2014 09:44:28 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Media_db.db)
10/28/2014 09:44:28 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Media_db.sig)
10/28/2014 09:44:28 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Setup.xml)
10/28/2014 09:45:08 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied Setup file/folder (packages)
10/28/2014 09:45:11 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied Setup file/folder (resources)
10/28/2014 09:45:11 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (Set-up.exe)
10/28/2014 09:45:12 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Media_db.db)
10/28/2014 09:45:12 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\Media_db.sig)
10/28/2014 09:45:12 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Copied File (payloads\setup.xml)
10/28/2014 09:46:09 [ERROR] AdobePackageBuilder - Failed to unzip the file (payloads\AdobeIllustrator18-mul-300914132703\Assets1_1.zip) from the zip file (C:\Users\brettm\AppData\Local\Adobe\AAMUpdater\1.0\Install\AdobeIllustrator18-mul\18.1.0 .430.2\setup.zip).
10/28/2014 09:46:09 [ERROR] AdobePackageBuilder - Failed to unzip the update - C:\Users\brettm\AppData\Local\Adobe\AAMUpdater\1.0\Install\AdobeIllustrator18-mul\18.1.0. 430.2\setup.zip.
Regards,
Brett.

If I recall correctly I got around this by deleting everything under the C:\Users\brettm\AppData\Local\Adobe\AAMUpdater\1.0\Install directory and whitelisted the following address in our proxy server. Then I started all over again and it worked. It always failed towards the end of the build so I can only assume it was doing some final checks with Adobe servers to make sure I had the proper licencing or something like that. Hope this helps.
ccmdl.adobe.com:80
swupmf.adobe.com:80
swupdl.adobe.com:80
https://na1mbls.licenses.adobe.com
https://ims-na1.adobelogin.com
https://adobeid-na1.services.adobe.com
https://na1r.services.adobe.com
http://activate.adobe.com
https://activate.adobe.com
http://adobe.activate.com
https://adobe.activate.com
ccmdls.adobe.com:443
ims-na1.adobelogin.com:443
na1r.services.adobe.com:443
prod-rel-ffc-ccm.oobesaas.adobe.com:443
lm.licenses.adobe.com:443
www-du1.adobe.com
Regards,
Brett.

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