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-<h2>Arch User Repository (AUR) Beta Test</h2>
-The Arch User Repository (AUR) is ready for beta testing. This release
-does not contain every feature everyone wanted, but at this stage we
-think we've implemented the most important features, and we need you to
-help us make sure they are working properly and reliably. A few months
-after the initial release, we'll start to prioritize
-features necessary for the next revision. We'll weigh the suggestions
-given and decide what additional features to add.<br>
-<h3><a href="http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?tasks=all&amp;project=2">Leave your feedback in Flyspray!</a></h3>
-<h3>Audience</h3>
-For this test, we are not using the real Arch servers or
-network bandwidth. As a result, you will find that
-bandwidth will be somewhat limited. Please don't upload many large
-packages, except where doing so helps to test a particular feature (or
-misfeature) of the system.<br>
-<br>
-We expect this beta testing to be performed by TUs and a
-handful of other users who are interested enough to subscribe to the TU
-mailing list or otherwise seek out this information. <span
- style="font-weight: bold;">Please do not advertise this beta site
-information widely; we will not have the network
-bandwidth to sustain a high load on the test platform and will need to
-cut the beta short.</span>
-Once the beta is over, the real AUR will be hosted on the main Arch
-Linux
-servers and will be able to handle the greater demands of the whole
-community.<br>
-<br>
-<h3>Introduction to the AUR<br>
-</h3>
-The AUR is a place for community members and TUs (Trusted Users) to
-work together to bring new packages to Arch Linux users. A TU is a
-special community member who has earned the trust of the core
-Arch developers and who wants to help build, test, and debug new Arch
-packages contributed by members of the community. Only a TU can build a
-binary package and add it to the AUR
-repository, which is then accessible via pacman -S.<br>
-<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
-</span>Any community member may upload new PKGBUILD directory tarballs
-from the AUR
-web interface. Those packages will appear in the "Unsupported"
-repository, and
-can be viewed and built by other community members, even though they
-are not yet available in binary form via pacman -S.<br>
-<br>
-The AUR system
-incorporates a voting system which allows members to vote for the
-packages in "Unsupported" that they think are useful or interesting. If
-a TU thinks a package is interesting or has received enough votes,
-the TU may choose to adopt the package. The TU builds the package,
-performs some rudimentary testing, and adds it
-to the AUR repository, where it can be accessed by any user subscribing
-to the AUR repository by running pacman -S. From that point on, the TU
-will maintain the
-package in the AUR repository, and all updates for the package must go
-through a TU.<br>
-<br>
-If a package gets enough votes or is otherwise deemed interesting by
-the core Arch development team, the package may be
-promoted into the extra or current repository. At that point, the
-package is removed from the AUR and is maintained by the core
-developers. Alternately, if a TU loses interest in a package, the TU
-may abandon the package or remove it from the AUR repository altogether.<br>
-<br>
-<h3>Feedback</h3>
-The most important part of this beta test is your feedback. There is a <a
- href="http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?tasks=all&amp;project=2">project
-set up in Flyspray</a> for the AUR. Please leave your feedback there.
-Though it will be tempting to email the AUR developers, remember that
-they will get a lot of email and they won't be able to find yours later
-when they're going through the feedback. If you put your bugs,
-comments, and suggestions in Flyspray, they are guaranteed not to get
-lost.<br>
-<br>
-Flyspray is incredibly easy to use. Take a moment to create an account
-as soon as you can.<br>
-<br>
-<h3>Schedule</h3>
-The AUR beta is starts now, around February 23. It should run until
-about the first week in March. At that point, it will look at the remaining
-problems, fix them, and launch the AUR sometime in mid-to-late March on the
-production servers.<br>
-<h3>Using the AUR Repository</h3>
-To access the AUR repository from pacman, add the following to your
-pacman.conf:<br>
-<br>
-<code>[aur]<br>
-Server = ftp://subzero.elys.com/arch/aur</code><br>
-<br>
-<h3>What The AUR Means to a Community Member</h3>
-If you're an Arch Linux community member, the AUR represents a giant
-step forward in your ability to effectively contribute your work in
-building Arch packages to the rest of the Arch Linux community. The
-following steps must ye take to get started:<br>
-<ol>
- <li>Set yourself up to access the AUR repository, if desired, by
-adding the above lines to your pacman.conf.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Visit the <a href="https://subzero.elys.com">AUR Beta Site</a>.</li>
- <li>Create a new user account.</li>
- <li>Begin uploading packages you have created. You should upload a
-.tar.gz file containing the PKGBUILD directory. You should not include
-a binary package file in your upload, just the PKGBUILD and related
-necessary files for building the package. (Imagine your package had
-been accepted into current or extra; we want just the files that would
-be fetched by abs in /var/abs.)<br>
- </li>
- <li>Review the other packages in the repository, and vote for the
-ones you find most interesting. If you're especially interested, browse
-the package contents and build other packages yourself.</li>
-</ol>
-<h3>What The AUR Means to a Trusted User (TU) or an Arch Developer<br>
-</h3>
-If you are an Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) or an Arch developer, and
-you want to get started on the beta, do the following:<br>
-<ol>
- <li>Set your machine up to access the AUR repository.</li>
- <li>Run <code>pacman -S tupkg</code> to download the TU package
-download tool.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Visit the <a href="https://subzero.elys.com">AUR Beta Site</a>.</li>
- <li>Create a new user account, using your usual user id.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Email Paul (paul at mattal dot com) and ask to have your login
-modified to have TU/developer status.<br>
-This
-step is necessary so we can make sure that the right people are getting
-the right access. We will migrate this information to the production
-system, so you won't have to do it again.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Check out the CVS tree for the AUR repository. To do this,
-execute the following commands:<br>
- <br>
- <code>export
-CVSROOT=":pserver:&lt;userid&gt;@cvs.archlinux.org:/home/cvs-aur-test"<br>
-cvs login<br>
-cvs co aur-test</code><br>
- <br>
-If you're
-a TU, you should already have an account in this new
-repository. If you are a developer, email Jason (jason at archlinux dot
-org) and he'll set up access for you.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Build binary packages for things you wish to place in the AUR,
-and add the PKGBUILD and accompanying necessary files to the CVS
-repository. You can do this with:<br>
- <br>
- <code>cvs add &lt;directory&gt;<br>
-cd &lt;directory&gt;<br>
-cvs add PKGBUILD<br>
-.<br>
-.<br>
-cvs commit</code><br>
- <br>
- </li>
- <li>Upload the binary packages using the "tupkg" tool. Run<span
- style="font-family: monospace;">:<br>
- </span><code><br>
-tupkg
---host
-subzero.elys.com --user &lt;userid&gt; --password &lt;password&gt;
-&lt;packagefile.pkg.tar.gz&gt;</code><br>
- <br>
-Note that this is your <span style="font-weight: bold;">AUR login
-password</span> -- the one you assign when you create your account, not
-your CVS password, in case they are different.<br>
- </li>
- <li>Once your packages are uploaded successfully, tag the newly
-created package files with the CURRENT tag in cvs. You can do this with:<br>
- <code><br>
-cvs tag -cFR CURRENT &lt;newpackagebuilddir&gt;</code> <br>
- <br>
- </li>
- <li>In 5-10 minutes, the automated script will add them to the AUR
-repository. Verify that they appear both in the web interface and
-become
-available via <code>pacman -Sy &lt;package&gt;</code> from the aur
-repository.</li>
- <li>Select the newly added or updated package in the AUR web
-interface and set yourself as the maintainer.<br>
- </li>
-</ol>
-</body>
-</html>