On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:34:24PM +0530, aashiks wrote: > My name is Aashik and i have been using Arch for the last two days. I was > planning to simply try it, but decided to stick with it because i like its > simplicity. Only one annoying thing happened to me. > > I am from India and my mother tongue is Malayalam. I tried to use scim and > m17n version of malayalam input methods. There were a few glitches. I noticed > that it is out of date and is currently flagged as 'orphan' when you do a > package search. To be precise, > the following packages. > > m17n-db,m17n-lib,scim-m17n > > There have been some commits made in the last few months from a project called > SMC ( http://smc.org.in ) which enables phonetic text input in Malayalam via > m17n also. > > I did not file a bug report because it asks everyone not to report outdated > packages as bugs.Is anyone actively maintaining i686 these packages ? If not I > can do it. I have spare time ( i took some time off from work ) . I don't know > a thing about creating packages and things like that. If someone can answer > my questions and doubts as they pop up , I can take up this task. Hey Aashik, If you're interested you can fetch the build files for your packages with `abs repo/pkg`. Copy those files somewhere for building, modify them, and run makepkg to build your packages. Have a look at these pages for more detailed info on the process. Cheers! http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards