On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:23:51 -0400 Eli Schwartz via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/12/19 2:12 PM, Paul Finkelshteyn wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:03:55 -0400 > > Eli Schwartz via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> As kodi-devel-bin take almost forever to build I've created github > >>> https://github.com/asm0dey/arch-kodi-devel-builder/ with pre-built > >>> packages. > >>> > >>> Now I want to create AUR packages which will be able to install > >>> these binary packages. > >> > >> No. > > > > Basically it's why I'm writing here > > And thank you for asking first! :) > > >>> As you can see I have some knowledge on how to maintain packages: > >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=asm0dey but in this > >>> concrete situation I have no any idea on how to create packages. > >>> Of course I can't just use these packages in source field because > >>> they have their own dependencies. Also I think I can't just > >>> install them inside build or package phase… > >>> > >>> So question is: is there any recommended way to do what I want? > >>> > >> > >> If you replace the word "recommended" with the word "allowed", then > >> the answer is "you are allowed to advertise your repository on > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories > >> and on the package details for the AUR package". > >> > >> In fact, you're actually encouraged to do so. That's why we have > >> the wiki listing in the first place. :) > >> > > > > But truth is I don't have repository (cause repository should have > > some predefined layout and so on). And I'm not sure if it's > > possible to create something repository-like on github. And I > > currently I have no idea on where should I have to host repository > > for it to be more or less reliable. > > I think you can probably use github pages for this. Github already > allows release assets, and there are definitely people putting release > assets in github pages, so I don't think this is against the terms of > service, and github pages lets you provide a simple html index and > file structure however you like. > > Just make sure to rebuild and force overwrite the gh-pages branch > rather than appending new commits, to make sure the size doesn't get > too big due to bloaty binary blobs in git history. > Sounds awful cause it will bloat repo size to insane sizes (built packages are tens of MB) and it's devel version so it may obtain updates several times a week… OK it looks like there is no sane way to do what I want so maybe I should just leave it as repo-for-myself. Paul
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