ArchLinux Package

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(27-12-2013 21:35)triplem Wrote:  Hi there,

I am currently setting up a small server for a NAS based on ArchLinux. For this, I wanted to make an minimserver package (as well as an minimwatch package that is). Since AL is using systemd, this package will also contain startup scripts for this environment.

Unfortunately the License of Minimserver does not allow me to build packages, no? How do other distros handle this one? Of course minimserver could be installed by each and every user, but IMHO this does not seem to be very "intuitive". At least I would like to provide the startup scripts and probably you could add those to the setup mechanism?

You are correct that the MinimServer license doesn't allow the MinimServer files to be repackaged and redistributed.

My intention is to provide Linux packages for MinimServer that enable individual users to download and install MinimServer from the MinimServer website. The recent changes to the packaging and startup scripts are intended to make this simpler for users than the previous approach of shipping a "bare" .tar.gz archive.

I am aware that the minimserver/bin/setup script that is packaged with MinimServer doesn't support configuring MinimServer automatic startup on distributions that don't use the System V /etc/init.d mechanism. If you would like to provide the equivalent code to do this for Arch Linux, I will look at adding this to the minimserver/bin/setup script in a future release of MinimServer.

As far as I know, the other scripts (except for minimserver/bin/setup) shouldn't need any changes to work with other distributions. Is this correct for Arch Linux?