[[!tag linux software]]

Having been experimenting with archlinux on eeepc for a few months now. I've been itching to package something up for fun to see how easy/hard it would be. I've finally got a chance make a package. Here's the resulting *PKGBUILD* file for [[!google ttyrec]]

    # Maintainer: Jimmy Tang <jtang@tchpc.tcd.ie>
    
    pkgname=ttyrec-git
    pkgver=20100201
    pkgrel=1
    pkgdesc="ttyrec is a tty recorder - this is not the official upstream version"
    arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    url="http://git.kitenet.net/?p=ttyrec.git"
    license=('BSD')
    makedepends=('git')
    
    _gitroot="git://git.kitenet.net/ttyrec.git"
    _gitname="ttyrec"
    
    build() {
      cd "$srcdir"
      msg "Connecting to GIT server...."
    
      if [ -d $_gitname ] ; then
        cd $_gitname && git pull origin
        msg "The local files are updated."
      else
        git clone $_gitroot
      fi
    
      msg "GIT checkout done or server timeout"
      msg "Starting make..."
    
      rm -rf "$srcdir/$_gitname-build"
      git clone "$srcdir/$_gitname" "$srcdir/$_gitname-build"
      cd "$srcdir/$_gitname-build"
    
      #
      # BUILD HERE
      #
      make CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -DSVR4 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500" || return 1
      install -d $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1 $pkgdir/usr/bin
      install -D ttyrec.1 ttyplay.1 ttytime.1 $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1
      install -D README $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname
      install -Dm755 ttyrec ttyplay ttytime $pkgdir/usr/bin
    }

It's actually a butchered version of what I found inside the *PKGBUILD* file for ikiwiki-git. The above isn't for the official version of ttyrec, but rather a patched up verion from [[!google Joey Hess]]. I had stumbled on his repo for it when I was reading his blog post on [[!google termcasting]] and got interested in [[!google ttyrec]]. I can think up a few useful things to do with ttyrec already, such as replacing a user's shell with ttyrec to record their sessions to playback :)