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f4hy

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From: Pittsburgh Pa

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 55

Transmission is out of date

The transmission package is out of date by a few versions now. Both the CLI and gtk packages. The package has been flagged as out of date for a while now. I have even e-mailed the maintainer of the package with an updated version of the PKGBUILD to bring the package up to date (before the most recent update) with no response.

What is the protocol for getting a package updated? Should I file a bug report? Is there someone other than the package maintainer I can contact?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,400

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Re: Transmission is out of date

Send the updated PKGBUILD to the arch-general list explaining this and generally one of the other devs will update it.

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rgwzlfw

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 7

Re: Transmission is out of date

So transmission is still pretty drastically out of date... f4hy, if you read this, perhaps you could post your PKGBUILD here for those of us who want to run an up-to-date version?

f4hy

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From: Pittsburgh Pa

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 55

Re: Transmission is out of date

Sure thing. Really the only changes needed were the pkgver and the checksums. 1.60 is a nice release

# Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com>
# Contributor: Brendan Fahy <brendan@f4hy.com>
pkgname=transmission-gtk
pkgver=1.60
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (GTK+ GUI)"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/"
license=('MIT')
depends=('curl' 'libnotify' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
makedepends=('intltool')
optdepends=('notification-daemon: Desktop notification support')
replaces=('transmission')
install=transmission-gtk.install
source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('8b30cf189240f0c50ccd11c618a6906a')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver"

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-wx --disable-cli --disable-daemon || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1

  # Remove web client
  rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/transmission" || return 1

  install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-gtk/COPYING" || return 1
}

rgwzlfw

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 7

Re: Transmission is out of date

Thanks for that. Changing the pkgver and the md5sums appears to work just as well for the transmission-cli package, if anyone is wondering.

f4hy, did you post this package build to the mailing list like Allan suggested? If so, what happened?

edit: It looks like this has been submitted as a bug already, so never mind I guess.

Last edited by rgwzlfw (2009-05-10 15:26:31)