Maintainer Guidelines

Adding a New Package

When you think a package on AUR is worth putting on the repo be sure to check the following points:

the package license allows us to distribute the package.
check the package and PKGBUILD with namcap
if the package is orphan on AUR, adopt it and turn on notification.
If it’s not an orphan, try to coordinate with the AUR maintainer for future updates.
add a comment to the AUR page, that the package is on the Arch-Games repo.

When you update an package for arch-games as developer, make sure you follow the following steps:

if the package won’t build, check the upstream bug tracker and inform the AUR maintainer or try to fix it and submit a patch to AUR.
check the PKGBUILD with namcap for errors, if there are new dependencies from AUR make sure you add them.
check if you can split the package into game and data ( any package ) so we can decrease server storage space.

When the package works scp it to the server.

scp $package [email protected]:

Move the package to the repo directory, where $arch is x86_64 or i686

ssh [email protected]
mv $package /srv/repo/$arch
cd /srv/repo/$arch

Then add it to the repo

repo-add arch-games.db.tar.gz $package

Then remove the old version

rm $pkgname-$oldversion-$arch.pkg.tar.gz

The seperate any/ dir is for package that have `arch=(any)` in the PKGBUILD. Move the any package to the
move the package to the `any` directory.

mv $package /srv/repo/any/

then symlink the package to both architectures.

cd /srv/repo
cd i686; ln -s ../any/$package $package
cd ../x86_64; ln -s ../any/$package $package

The add the package to the database on both architectures.

repo-add arch-games.db.tar.gz $package

cd to the repo location.

cd /srv/repo/$ARCH

run repo-remove from the database

repo-remove arch-games.db.tar.gz $pkgname

then remove the .pkg.tar.gz

rm $pkgname-$version.pkg.tar.gz

How to use git is described in the GIT wiki.

The Arch Linux Gaming Project has some tools of there own, to check the status of the repository.

archdiff – a tool to check the difference between the two architectures ( x86_64 and i686 ).
aurcmp – check the difference between our repo and AUR .
finddep – finds the deps of an package.
gitcmp – compares package versions between a pacman repo and a git repo.
namcaplist – a scripts that needs to be run in packages/ and returns an txt file with all the package issue’s.
rebuildlist – a script to check for rebuilds against an new lib (libjpeg for example).
addpkg – a script to add packages to the repo automatically. (incomplete)
pkgfile – A tool to find out what package owns a file ( pacman -S pkgtools )
namcap – checks an PKGBUILD for errors.