Comments on: Archlinux tools: AUR

By: Codemac

Codemac — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:33:13 +0000

Just to be a stickler here:

Trusted Users do not check packages before they are released to the public. Once they have been release to the public, a trusted user will usually go through all the files and mark it as “safe” or leave it as “unsafe.” If a package is labelled “unsafe”, that doesn’t mean the pkgbuild will hurt your system, it just means that no trusted user has checked.

We try to go through as many packages as we can, but the point of the AUR is so that the community can develop for itself. We are not the gatekeeper of the code posted.

By: michuk

michuk — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:59:14 +0000

Indeed.

By: Taco Buitenhuis

Taco Buitenhuis — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:50:23 +0000

aur-sync - quite simple program (written in Pearl)

You probably mean Perl.

By: michuk

michuk — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000

I edited the article to make it more clear. Thanks for your input.

By: furester

furester — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:53:18 +0000

I’m not sure that what you write about PKGBUILD is correct, PKGBUILDs are (first of all) the description of how to build packages .. where you find these informations?