On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Jeff Horelick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Listmates, > > I have a package here i'd really like to add to the AUR. The problem is > that > its packaged in a .deb. How would i go about packaging this for Arch? Feel > free to just point at: "Look at this other package" or "Read this wiki > page". > > In case some of you guys don't know the formmat that a .deb is in: > > An ar archive, inside there are 2 tarballs, one called control.tar.gz which > for our purposes can be mostly ignored and one called data.tar.gz which has > the actual application files laid out in the directory structure of the > system similar to a Arch final binary package. (usr/bin/stuff, > usr/share/stuff and so on). > > Or would it be easier for me to just setup a GitHub or BitBucket account, > drop all the source files on there and simply make a hg or git package? > (For > the record and all, it's not my project, but it is GPLv2 so....) > Use deb2targz to convert it to a binary suitable for integration with a pkgbuild. It would be better to just put the source files in GitHub, though, as using sources is preferred over binaries in Arch. If you want an example of a PKGBUILD which converts a binary deb package to a tar.gz, see my oz-e17-tools package<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23227> . Smartboy
