I'd like to submit QsLog to Arch Linux's Arch User Repository and I need a little help.

[Wesley Chan]

Hi Razvanpetru,

Sorry for the long title. I want to help make this project easier to use under Arch Linux and submitting it to the AUR is the way to go.

However, all packages on AUR requires a version number. Unfortunately I didn't see any release of your project. (Sorry, I mean release created with a tag.) It would be excellent If you could kindly release a beta with a proper version number, e.g. 0.1.0.

Another problem is, this project is claimed to be licensed under the MIT license, but the content of LICENSE.txt looks like a BSD 3-Clause License.

Here's an example of PKGBUILD I made for you. I'm looking forward to your reply. Thank you.

Regards,
Wesley

# Maintainer: razvanpetru <razvanpetru-at-example-dot-com>
pkgname=qslog
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An easy to use logger that is based on Qt's QDebug class."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://bitbucket.org/razvanpetru/qslog"
license=('MIT')
groups=()
depends=('qt5-base')
makedepends=()
optdepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
changelog=
source=(https://bitbucket.org/razvanpetru/qslog/get/49edb1da767a.zip)
noextract=()
sha256sums=('ded106c06d0e993c45af92272d47f4c07eeea3fa29d2a76f753dbb5faf725a4d')

build() {
  cd razvanpetru-qslog-49edb1da767a
  qmake QsLogSharedLibrary.pro
  make
}

package() {
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr"
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/include"
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/include/qslog"
  mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/lib"

  cp $srcdir/razvanpetru-qslog-49edb1da767a/{QsLog.h,\
QsLogDest.h,\
QsLogDestConsole.h,\
QsLogDestFile.h,\
QsLogDestFunctor.h,\
QsLogDisableForThisFile.h,\
QsLogLevel.h} "$pkgdir/usr/include/qslog"
  cp "$srcdir/razvanpetru-qslog-49edb1da767a/build-QsLogShared/libQsLog.so.2.0.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"
  ln -s "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so.2.0.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so.2.0"
  ln -s "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so.2.0.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so.2"
  ln -s "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so.2.0.0" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libQsLog.so"
}

[raz]

Hi Wesley, I corrected the README.md, the license should indeed be BSD. I'll make a proper release this weekend, not including tags is indeed quite a silly oversight. :-)

I assume the PKGBUILD has to be part of the repo? In that case I can adapt it and include it, thanks for the example.

[Wesley Chan]

Thank you very much for your reply!

No, the PKGBUILD file does not necessarily be part of the repo. It will be kept in the Arch Linux's git server, and updates will be committed into it.

[Wesley Chan]

OK, one step further.

I didn't realize that the install process is already in the .pro file. Sorry. So the PKGBUILD file should look like this.

# Maintainer: razvanpetru <razvanpetru-at-example-dot-com>
pkgname=qslog
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An easy to use logger that is based on Qt's QDebug class."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://bitbucket.org/razvanpetru/qslog"
license=('BSD')
depends=('qt5-base')
source=(https://bitbucket.org/razvanpetru/qslog/get/49edb1da767a.zip)
sha256sums=('5b0ec03d8057fccb1bfd2dbefe2531488aa3becd9bed6053cf1c7cbf5bae82da')

build() {
  cd razvanpetru-qslog-49edb1da767a
  qmake QsLogSharedLibrary.pro
  make
}

package() {
  cd razvanpetru-qslog-49edb1da767a
  make INSTALL_ROOT="$pkgdir/" install
}

Plesae ignore the sha256sums. It's supposed to be generated using updpkgsums.

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And Arch packaging standards states that, Packages should never be installed to /usr/local. Yes, we seldom use that folder.

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And (sorry) in 64-bit Arch Linux, /usr/lib64 is just a symbolic link to /usr/lib. The latest version of pacman (package Manager) will complain if files being installed to a symbolic link. Instead, they should be installed to where they really should be.

So we may need three additional lines in QsLogSharedLibrary.pro.

# This pro file will build QsLog as a shared library
include(QsLog.pri)

TARGET = QsLog
VERSION = "2.0.0"
QT -= gui
CONFIG -= console
CONFIG -= app_bundle
CONFIG += shared
TEMPLATE = lib

QSLOG_DESTDIR=$$(QSLOG_DESTDIR)
!isEmpty(QSLOG_DESTDIR) {
    message(Will use $${QSLOG_DESTDIR} as destdir.)
    DESTDIR = $${QSLOG_DESTDIR}/bin
}

DISTRO = $$system(uname -a)

win32 {
    DEFINES += QSLOG_IS_SHARED_LIBRARY
}

unix:!macx {
    # make install will install the shared object in the appropriate folders
    headers.files = QsLog.h QsLogDest.h QsLogLevel.h
    headers.path = /usr/include/$(QMAKE_TARGET)

    other_files.files = *.txt
    other_files.path = /usr/local/share/$(QMAKE_TARGET)
    contains(DISTRO, .*ARCH): other_files.path = /usr/share/$(QMAKE_TARGET)

    contains(QT_ARCH, x86_64) {
        target.path = /usr/lib64
        contains(DISTRO, .*ARCH): target.path = /usr/lib
    } else {
        target.path = /usr/lib
    }

    INSTALLS += headers target other_files
}

Lines containing "DISTRO" is new to the file.

Now, if you don't mind, may I create a pull request about the file QsLogSharedLibrary.pro?

Regards.

[raz]

Sure, go right ahead, no need to ask for permission...

[raz]

Hi, I've merged your pull request and added a tag "rel_2.1.0". Please let me know if there's anything else needed.

[Wesley Chan]

Done. Thanks for helping.