Intro

Installs stardict dictionaries from the https://github.com/indic-dict/ project. Languages covered: Sanskrit, Pali, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Hindi, Nepali, Gujarati, Marathi, Panjabi/ Punjabi, Sinhala, Assamese, English, Latin...

Technical info

• AUR package location: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stardict-indic-update/
• Package source code locations:
  • git clone git@github.com:sanskrit-coders/stardict-indic-update-aur.git
  • git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/stardict-indic-update.git

Creating a new Arch Linux package release

• Create a github release at https://github.com/indic-dict/dict-tools/releases.
• Update PKGBUILD.
  • Fix the version numbers.
  • Get the sha256sum by:
    • Downloading the github release package.
    • running something like sha256sum sanskrit-fonts-1.0.tar.gz
• Verify package by running makepkg -si.
• Update AUR repository.
  • Set remote: git remote add ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/stardict-indic-update.git .
  • Generate or update .SRCINFO with makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
  • Push to the AUR repo. (Even a single invalid commit will cause rejection.)

References

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/creating_packages