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THIS SOFTWARE IS NOW ABANDONED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT OR APPROPRIATE THE NAME PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO: louipc dot ist at gmail, SUBJECT: AURBUILD

aurbuild

• A tool to build and install packages from the Arch Linux User Repository.
• Helpful for building official packages via ABS.
• Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.

Please contribute to this project! Patches are always welcome.

Try it out!

Latest version: CHANGELOG

AUR Page - Browse GIT Repo

Please vote for aurbuild on the AUR Page.

sudo and aurbuild

aurbuild should be run as root or with root permissions. Root permissions are used by aurbuild to become an unprivileged user specifically meant for building. This method is actually safer than running the scripts as your regular user because it keeps all that user data safe from potential damage.

sudo makes it convenient to run aurbuild without becoming root, but you have to pass the editor variable to the subshell.

sudo env EDITOR=$EDITOR aurbuild <whatever>

Make a bash alias for easy everyday use:

alias aurbuild="sudo env EDITOR=\$EDITOR aurbuild"

Bugs and Support

AUR Page
Post a comment on aurbuild's AUR page.

Obtaining Source Code

After installing aurbuild you will automatically have the source code since it's written in Python. Use git if you want to obtain the source in a more useful fashion.

git clone https://github.com/louipc/aurbuild.git

Browse the code at https://github.com/louipc/aurbuild

All development is done in the master branch.
Changes will be tagged before release and merged into stable.

History

aurbuild first appeared in the Arch Linux wiki as a fourty-four line python script written by Dusty Phillips in 2005.

That script was then picked up by Tyler Gates. It was expanded, and even rewritten (twice). Sometime in 2007 Gates switched to another Linux distribution yet continued to maintain aurbuild.

In late February 2008 Loui Chang took over maintainance of aurbuild.