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Packages configured before compiling

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I often use a variety of your option #1.You can keep your own version of the PKGBUILD that you have editted and use that to upgrade the package, or - on each upgrade of the package - just edit the PKGBUILD to include a line that copies your personal config.h to the src directory.  For example, I do this for my own package where I add cp ~/.ttwmconf.h ./config.hto the build function of the package build directly before the make command.Note that if the format of or options available in the config file change, this could cause problems.  This should be checked on occasionally, but o (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/30/2012

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OP doesn't mean that the package is out-of-date, OP means that the PKGBUILD in the AUR apparently only has a build function (no package function), which is deprecated.grimpirate, that does not constitute a reason to flag out-of-date, it constitutes a reason to send the AUR package maintainer a request to update the PKGBUILD to reflect modern syntax.

While Trying to install VirtualBox from AUR, and when installing the dependencies, I got this error.

==> Starting build()... /tmp/yaourt-tmp-keripix/aur-libpng12/libpng12/./PKGBUILD: line 26: patch: command not found ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... Error: Makepkg was unable to build libpng12 package.

It was solved by install base-devel package

Ok, here is one thing that puzzles me... I'm trying to build a package from source, and then use checkinstall to generate a .deb package.

scorched3d as ccr 3 weeks 5 days ago

Try a makepkg -s on it to see if there are any packages not in the official repo. Than check ccr to see if they are there. Otherwise search for individual parts of the package name; for example, many of the python packages in chakra use python2-something while arch uses python-something. If you find a matching package under a different name, change it in the PKGBUILD.

hugleo,Make your changes in the 09_xen config (XEN_HYPERVISOR_CMDLINE and XEN_LINUX_CMDLINE) as this is the file provided by the xen package. However looking at the PKGBUILD of the xen package it doesnt look like it does anything with the 09_xen file when an update happens. You will either need to add it yourself (to the backups or whatever) or ask the maintainer to update the pkgbuild.

makepkg -e ignoring the -e? 30 weeks 1 day ago

Trying to build a package that includes curl/types.h which has been removed from the curl package, but every time I comment out the include and run makepkg -e it re-extracts from the source file and overwrites my changes anyway. I thought the entire point of the -e option was to use the existing src/ directory as-is?

I wonder if anybody would be prepared to take a look at this orphaned AUR package. I've posted a comment on the package's page at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnofract4d/.Basically, I managed to get the latest version of the package to build just by changing the checksums and adjusting the version but I would like to get the documentation to compile as well.

Hi!After an interesting discussion on HackerNews about RethinkBD, I wanted to take a look for myself. Using it in Ubuntu (my work system) wasn't that bad, they build package for that one, and looked like something I might like to play with.

(K)aMule as a package 1 year 2 weeks ago

In order to test whether it would build and run if built against amule-daemon only, you would need to make a separate PKGBUILD for that as it's included in the amule package (as usr/bin/amuled) in the Arch repos.  The AUR kamule PKGBUILD has amule as a dependency so you would need to change that to the new amuled or amule-daemon package.