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OkayDave / barr

Barr is a status line style generator for LemonBar
MIT License
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Suggestion: AUR Package (Arch Linux) #22

Open wiesendaniel opened 8 years ago

wiesendaniel commented 8 years ago

It would be great if you could create a PKGBUILD and submit it to the AUR.

I save my installed Arch packages to a file as backup and for an easy rebuild of my system. I do this for official and AUR packages. I think I'm not the only Arch user, that does something like this. I'm not planing to do this for gem, npm and whatnot. Today there are just to many different "package installers". As most of the lemaonbar/i3/bspwm users are Arch users, this would be beneficial to a lot of people I think.

Building an PKGBUILD is relatively simple.(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD) Here is a little script, that does everything for you: https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch

(I would do it my self, but I figured, that you may want the AUR package under your control.)

OkayDave commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't currently use Arch so this isn't something I feel I could readily provide. If this is something you'd be happy to take on then you are quite welcome to do so, and I would be most appreciative for the assistance.

wiesendaniel commented 8 years ago

Sorry that it took me so long to come back to this.

I've managed to add an AUR package for barr. See: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-barr/

It wasn't as strait forward as I expected it to be, because I have to manage all the dependencies and if you submit an new release I have to build the new package every time.

I were looking for an more automated solution, but I hadn't the time to build something. I'm also not quite sure if it is even accepted to build aur packages in an automated manner.

As long as I use Barr I will try to keep the Package up to date.

OkayDave commented 8 years ago

Thanks very much for handling this. Is there anything I can do on my end to make it easier for you?