# \[Chapel Merge\] AUR packaging **URL:** \ **Category:** Commits\ **Created:** [June 8, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-merge-aur-packaging/13187 "2022-06-08T18:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mppf1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@mppf1](https://chapel.discourse.group/u/mppf1)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/chapel-merge-aur-packaging/13187/1 "2022-06-08T18:53:31Z")
Branch: refs/heads/main Revision: c2102ff Author: mppf Link: Unavailable Log Message: ``` Merge pull request #19837 from ghbrown/aur_packaging ``` AUR packaging [PR by @ghbrown - thanks! Reviewed/merged by @mppf] Adds packaging and build/test instructions for the Arch (Linux) User Repository (AUR), as per [the discourse discussion](https://chapel.discourse.group/t/when-is-setting-chpl-lib-pic-necessary-for-working-build/12339/21). Additions: - The chapel package for AUR tracks the static 1.26 release, but is non-functional due to issues in 1.26 that cause build issues on Arch. These issues have been resolved on `main`, but the chapel AUR package will be left broken until 1.27 releases (the online description of the broken AUR points to functioning chapel-git package). - The chapel-git package for AUR tracks the main branch of the chapel repo and is fully functional. Outstanding issues: - updating chapel AUR to use 1.27 upon its release - fixing the `git describe --long --tags --always` behavior for the main branch (currently main reports as version 1.24, while it is really 1.26 at the time of writing). Possible future work: - automated copying of packaging files from their remote sources (so maintainers don't need to manually copy and make PRs, etc), hopefully such a tool would work for many different packaging formats, OSes, etc. and not be a one-off for Arch - testing of packaging; it is important to test both successful install **and** a functioning compiler **after** build and install, as we ran into multiple situations where the compiler built and checked, but did not actually work (#19913).