Talk:Nonfree applications package guidelines
DLAGENT no workaround
It looks like there is a workaround for bash arrays, and it is implemented here: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=decklink-sdk aviallon (talk) 20:39, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
RPM vs DEB for repackaging
If the proprietary software is provided in both ".deb" and ".rpm" package files, should one or another be prefered? I often see deb packages been repacked, but want to understand if there is any reasoning behind that.
For the case with Davinci Resolve, the reason may be that it is packaged for CentOS vs Ubuntu, and Ubuntu has more recent versions of software, so probability that software will work with with Arch Linux is higher. That is understandable.
But for other cases, I see (for now) no obvious reasons to prefer one or another. Ashark (talk) 10:54, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- One technical point to prefer RPM is that it's easier to unpack. When makepkg unpacks RPM, you have its content directly.
- In contrast, DEB contains another archive
data.tar.xzinside, which you need to unpack the second time manually. - But beside that, the end result is the same, there is no real difference. It's a matter of package maintainer's preference and/or quirks of a particular package.
- Hanabishi (talk) 14:25, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- But with deb, you have direct access to extra files like postinst and package description/version, while with rpm you must have special utilities, right? Ashark (talk) 17:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea why you ever would need that.
PKGBUILDalready contains package version and description. And Debian postinst scripts are pretty much useless on Arch. - Hanabishi (talk) 17:46, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- At least to see whats in there. Also, I may want to use a specific pkgver function to extract package version. Because sometimes, the package in download link does not have version in its name. For example like this app. I guess it is somehow possible to parse the repo files (they add repo urls internally), but other than that, need to extract it from control file. Ashark (talk) 17:56, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I think that falls under
package maintainer's preference and/or quirks of a particular package
- Hanabishi (talk) 18:16, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I would like this be covered in the article. And also, have the example for rpm package (which is missing at the moment of writing). Ashark (talk) 08:56, 13 November 2024 (UTC)
- At least to see whats in there. Also, I may want to use a specific pkgver function to extract package version. Because sometimes, the package in download link does not have version in its name. For example like this app. I guess it is somehow possible to parse the repo files (they add repo urls internally), but other than that, need to extract it from control file. Ashark (talk) 17:56, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea why you ever would need that.
- But with deb, you have direct access to extra files like postinst and package description/version, while with rpm you must have special utilities, right? Ashark (talk) 17:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)