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replax

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Nginx Mainline pkg / AUR pkg

Hello guys,

just wondering, because Archlinux is usually one of the first distros do adopt anything new, why is there no nginx mainline package?
From what I found, there is not even an AUR package for that?
Does that have any specific reason or does rarely anybody need it because there are not too many Arch Servers (I think they're great, though as long as you care)?

Thanks for the help !

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Nginx Mainline pkg / AUR pkg

From what I found, there is not even an AUR package for that?

What exactly were your search terms.  I searched the AUR for "nginx", and recieved dozens of results.  Most of them are different packaging variations on nginx.

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replax

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Re: Nginx Mainline pkg / AUR pkg

actually, you are right.
I searched for nginx mainline / nginx development.
Found it now, though, sorry for posting before doing proper research.
though, from what I see in the pkg builds, there is no pkg containing just nginx mainline (version 1.5.8?)
there is nginx-devel (1.5.6) and nginx-custom-dev (1.5.7) but both of them package other things as well in contrast to the normal nginx package.

Shall I flag it out of date? not sure, because there are other things included which may prevent the update to 1.5.7 or something similar..

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Nginx Mainline pkg / AUR pkg

It seems some are already marked outdate.  I'm not familiar with nginx, but there is the -hg package which would have the most recent development code (but not the recent stable release).  You could check if any of the out-of-date packages are orphaned.  If so they can be adopted and fixed up.  In some cases this might be as easy as changing the version number in the PKGBUILD so it downloads the new source files.

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Nginx Mainline pkg / AUR pkg

Moving to AUR issues, Discussion and PKGBUILD requests

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