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#1 2022-07-06 23:27:34

TylerMackJ
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[SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

As the subject says is any package able to add itself to any group. From my understanding the groups a package belongs to is part of it's PKGBUILD. If this is true what is stopping anyone from adding random packages to groups like base-devel?

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#2 2022-07-06 23:35:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

If you want to add a random package to base-devel on your machine no-one is going (to be able) to stop you...


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#3 2022-07-06 23:38:34

TylerMackJ
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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

Does this mean that package groups are audited by the mirror?

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#4 2022-07-06 23:39:20

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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

No, it's part of the package database.

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#5 2022-07-06 23:47:27

TylerMackJ
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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

Scimmia wrote:

No, it's part of the package database.

Unless I misunderstand I thought the mirrors are able to "choose" what packages are core, extra,... etc. Official mirrors, though, are in agreement with one another.

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#6 2022-07-06 23:50:42

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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

Technically they could, but they would quickly get removed from the mirrorlist. They're supposed to sync the databases exactly as they are. It all comes from a central mirror controlled directly by the devs/tus.

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#7 2022-07-06 23:52:12

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Re: [SOLVED] Can any package add itself to any group?

Scimmia wrote:

Technically they could, but they would quickly get removed from the mirrorlist. They're supposed to sync the databases exactly as they are. It all comes from a central mirror controlled directly by the devs/tus.

Thank you this makes sense!

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