Hi all,
during the last year, I migrated a few machines I take care of from Gentoo to Artix, obviously using OpenRC. For some packages, the corresponding -openrc package was missing (and also some other software), and thus I simply created the respective packages.
I put them into a git repo, to be found on https://gitlab.com/l3u/artix-packages . As of now, I created openrc init packages for msmtp, quassel-core, tftp-hpa and smartmontools.
Is there a way I can contribute those to Artix? I really love it and would like to support you guys and make Artix better!
The other packages I created are maybe already present in AUR or whatever, but I thought it would be easier for me to adapt Gentoo's respective ebuild to add that stuff than to mess with "external" package repositories. However, the OpenRC ones may be useful I hope.
The de facto standard for non-repo packages is the AUR. A well-written PKGBUILD may be packaged later in our repos by a packager.
Ah okay, so I think I'll have to investigate how I can contribute some packages to AUR.
Is the AUR actually the right place for OpenRC init script packages? I thought this was only "Arch stuff", and as Arch has only Systemd, I would not have expected that …
AUR has openrc packages, they are just unsupported by Arch
There are also Hyperbola (https://www.hyperbola.info/) and Parabola (https://www.parabola.nu/), which to my knowledge also use openrc as init and AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch-based_distributions
Okay, thanks for the input!
I pushed all the packages I created until now to the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=doc_l3u&SeB=m (except for brscan3 and brgenml1, those did already exist).