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Chih-Hsuan Yen edited this page Dec 2, 2018 · 4 revisions

NOTICE: For Chinese developer, please read the Chinese version, this document may not be up to date with Chinese one

If you would like to join us as a packager, please read the directions in this page.

Here are some basic requirements for every packagers. You should have:

  • Enough time to update and maintain your own packages
  • Experience with shell scripts, makepkg, PKGBUILD, basic git usage, compiler options, and the ability to look into the package dependencies and error messages.
  • Endurance and responsibility. Orphan packages will be dropped within one week from our repo.

Send your application to the following email please:

admin@archlinuxcn.org

The formatting of the application

  • Who are you, your ID in community and GitHub, your name.
  • What can you do for Arch/Linux/Community.
  • Your identity information and contact, for example, your job, current city/company/school and so on, and your other reliable contacts. (We would never leak your privacy information to any third-party, we ask these information only for identity verification and assigns responsibilities.

Note

Please attach your SSH public key in the application, if the application pass, you will get the log info about community repo server and compilation server, you need the relevant private key to log the server. Before you upload some packages, make sure that the relevant PKGBUILD is uploaded to the repo already. Take a look at the naming format in the repo: You should create a relevant source directory for every package, and contains PKGBUILD and other files to built it.

Please DO NOT use mailboxes from Microsoft. For unknown reasons, Microsoft mailboxes reject notification mails from our servers. To receive notifications, please DO NOT use mailboxes with Microsoft domains like hotmail.com or live.cn in git commits and lilac.py.

Using Lilac Automatic Update Package

lilac.yaml wiki: Https://archlinuxcn.github.io/lilac/

Delete the package file in the lilac home

build.archlinuxcn.org's execute sudo cleanup-package-files <pkgname> to list the files to be deleted, and confirm delete them by adding the --real parameter.

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