Packages for Linux Distros

[ghost]

I don't have experience with other distros, but I would be willing to help maintain a package in the AUR for Arch Linux! Let me know what you think.

As far as other distros go, having .deb and .rpm releases would probably be a good start; I'm not too sure how things are done outside of Arch though.

[Jebbs]

Yeah I haven't looked into it much. Mainly because I feel like the whole binding could use a bit more stability(things change pretty fast) and also because I have no idea how hard it is to get one set up.

If you want to look up what it entails for me and let me know what I have to do for arch I would be happy to get it set up. Then we could go from there to apt and yum, and I think that would cover pretty much all major distros.

[ghost]

I've created a package for Arch and uploaded it to the AUR. I'm more than happy to maintain the package, but if you'd rather maintain it yourself, here is relevent reading material:

• Arch User Repository Wiki Page
• PKGBUILD Wiki Page
• VCS PKGBUILD Guidelines
• AUR Metadata

As for apt (.deb) and yum (.rpm), I've done a quick bit of googling and found some links that will hopefully be helpful:

apt

• Wikipedia entry on .deb
• Debian Packaging Guide

yum

• Wikipedia entry on rpm, which yum uses under-the-hood
• Fedora Packaging Guide

[Jebbs]

Thanks a ton for this!

I was pretty busy today but I should have some time to check everything out tomorrow. I'll be able to give you some feedback then.

One thing I would like to add is if you are fine with maintaining the Arch package then I would be happy to let you take care of that! I have enough to take care of as it is. :P

[ghost]

No rush :) I'm happy to help! As for distros other than Arch, I can't commit to maintain packages for them, but I can help out with research and initial packaging/testing.

[Jebbs]

Just going to pop in here and say that I think I'm going to restart this repo with a different name to make things a little simpler. I don't know when, but it'll probably be soon.

[ghost]

Okay, I'll make any necessary updates to the AUR pkgbuild whenever you do :)

[nikibobi]

What happened with the Arch package? I can't find it in AUR. Is it no longer maintained?

[Jebbs]

Not sure.

I don't see any packages either, but DSFML-C is going away when DSFML 2.4 is released.

I opened an issue for DSFML for this so it doesn't get left through the cracks for the next release.

[ghost]

Sorry about that, I stopped maintaining this package when Arch did the AUR 4 to AUR 5 migration. The old package is archived here: https://github.com/aur-archive/dsfml-c-git Anyone else is welcome to put it back up on the modern AUR and take over maintenance