Just out of curiosity, would kicad-nightly eventually make it into Arch Linux community repository soon, or remain as an AUR package?
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 1:01 AM Rachel Mant <ki...@rachelmant.com> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > Much appreciated. My GitLab username is "DX-MON" (minus the quotes). > I have not yet created a repo for the scripts, but I can get that done > in fairly short order. > > I imagine it'll be easiest if I push directly to gitlab.com as then > the repo can be transferred in or so. > The repo will be located at > https://gitlab.com/DX-MON/kicad-arch-builder and the two AUR repos > it'll reference are https://aur.archlinux.org/kicad-nightly.git and > https://aur.archlinux.org/kicad-library-nightly.git as you have > already found. > > Combining the approaches is definitely going to be an interesting > challenge! I look forward to working with Nick on this. > > Rachel. > > Quoting Seth Hillbrand <s...@kipro-pcb.com>: > > > Hi Rachel and Nick- > > > > Nick is the current maintainer of kicad-git in AUR. But this isn't > > currently tracked in our packaging repositories. Because of this, I can > > see why suggesting a new package to the list would make sense. > > > > There is certainly room in the packaging subproject for the Arch > packages. > > I've looked them both over and the two packages take different > approaches. > > There may be good reasons for Arch users to prefer to use one over the > > other. Ideally, we would keep a single "official" AUR set. But this > > should be in the packaging project. > > > > So, for now, let's bring both package sets into the kicad-arch packaging > > group[1] and we can work out the best way to support our arch users. > > Rachel, please send me your GitLab username and the link to the git > > repository where you are currently keeping your scripts (or the tarball > if > > there's no repository yet). Nick, I think you have permission in the > > packaging group to create the kicad-git repository. > > > > Thank you again Rachel for offering to help contribute to KiCad. We look > > forward to working with you. > > > > -Seth > > > > [1] https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-arch > > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:27 AM Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Rachel > >> > >> I wonder why you wouldn't just propose the changes to the maintainer of > >> kicad-git in AUR. > >> > >> I didn't review your scripts, but that is where I woukd start. > >> > >> > >> fre. 23. okt. 2020 12.32 skrev <ki...@rachelmant.com>: > >> > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> I recently got fed up enough of not having a parallel installable > >>> nightly for Arch that I could use at the same time as release KiCAD so > >>> I could toy with new features and yet still keep my main projects in > >>> 5.x format, so I put in the effort to create a set of PKGBUILD files > >>> for such a nightly. > >>> > >>> The result of this are the two sets of packages on the AUR known as > >>> kicad-nightly and kicad-library-nightly. However, updating these is > >>> presently a touch unwieldy and I wish to put together a meta-repo with > >>> my scripts for updating the packages. > >>> > >>> To this end, I'm seeking a packaging repo on GitLab such as > >>> `kicad-arch-builder`, and possibly a couple of mirroring repos for > >>> each of the two AUR packages, if that is possible please? > >>> > >>> Many thanks, > >>> Rachel. > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > -- > > [image: KiCad Services Corporation Logo] > > Seth Hillbrand > > *Lead Developer* > > +1-530-302-5483 <+12126039372> > > Davis, CA > > www.kipro-pcb.com i...@kipro-pcb.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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