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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.nick@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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