Arch Linux

I updated now to 1.8.0 and it builds fine at the moment. I also supplied the package to AUR 4 (https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/gdrive/)

Yeah, the first PKGBUILD built fine, because it only copies a prebuilt binary to its destination.

The git version builds fine, because the author adapts the source to changes in the used libs. My package intends to build a fixed version which is tagged in the source, but there is AFAIK no info which lib version are needed (and also no way to restrict to those version).

But I see it is outdated anyway, maybe 1.8 will build fine.

Is the current PKGBUILD correct? I think the old PKGBUILD you refer to is installing the correct version (i.e. "pkgver"): the correct version of gdrive, including the correct versions of the dependent source code projects/repos.

Package gdrive-git seems to build just fine. Could that mean there are no dependency issues?

The package is not building at the moment, due to dependency issues (this seems to be a real problem in go). I filed a issue for that (https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive/issues/64) upstream.
At the meantime you can use the old PKGBUILD (https://github.com/kleinph/gdrive-pgkbuild/commit/e5d5e93a5e4935c6be24d85bf875554a9f66d5f7)

@willemw

ad 1) yep will use the github releases feature
ad 2) good point. It seems that go has no real dependency management here or is there one I just dont know?

I've created a git version of gdrive: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdrive-git/

About your pastebin example:
- Could use something like 'source=("http://SERVER/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")' to download the source code.
- 'go get' also downloads from the other dependent source code repos (but always the latest versions? Is that OK?)

I would go with something like this: http://pastebin.com/gGmfDYue

Hm, I don't think this is a good PKGBUILD. Anyway arch linux has guidelines for go packes https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Go_package_guidelines. So I will do a new PKGBUILD based on this.

I think this is a good template: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dr/drive/PKGBUILD

That would be nice. Thanks!

Maybe I can help to fix it up.

I am not sure. It is not that hard to setup a proper build process?

Do you intend to leave it this way?

@greyltc because I was lazy. This is not someones google drive. This are the binaries which are linked from the official git repo.

Why is this PKGBUILD downloading prebuilt binaries from someone's google drive account and not performing the build its self?

The source code is available.