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[Rachel Mant <kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <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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