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karol

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[solved] AUR4 search

I wanted to find alsaequal, but only alsaequal-mgr shows up https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/?O= … _Search=Go
alsaequal is in the AUR4 too https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/alsaequal/ , so how do I find it?

Last edited by karol (2015-08-07 17:53:29)

progandy

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

I wanted to find alsaequal, but only alsaequal-mgr shows up https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/?O= … _Search=Go
alsaequal is in the AUR4 too https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/alsaequal/ , so how do I find it?

alsaequal is not in the AUR4, only in the old AUR. If a package exists in AUR3 but not in AUR4, then a page with non-functional links will be displayed. I guess that happens because of some of the migration code that is responsible for transferring comments. That should change after AUR4 replaces the old AUR in the next few days I think.

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karol

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

No idea what you just said.
What are the non-functional links you're talking about? Anywhere I can read up on that?

How do I know if https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/alsaequal/ is real or not? Let's say I don't want it to disappear, I want to have it in the new AUR. I see it's an aur4 url, so I should be fine, right?

Trilby

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

Click on "View PKGBUILD" - it looks nonfunctional to me.

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Scimmia

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

I see it's an aur4 url, so I should be fine, right?

No. What you linked to is the placeholder that got migrated from the old AUR, nothing else.

progandy

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

No idea what you just said.

Sorry, I'll try to rearrange my thoughts.
alsaequal is only available in the old AUR3.
You cannot find it in the AUR4 search since it is not added (yet?).
It is possible to manually create an AUR4 url for any AUR3-only package.
This AUR4 url displays a page with nonfunctional links.

I was also speculating about that placeholder URL and I am guessing that those pages will disappear after the old AUR3 is converted into an archive.

What are the non-functional links you're talking about? Anywhere I can read up on that?

If you try to view the PKGBUILD or the changes for alsequal on AUR4, you'll get "Invalid branch: alsaequal", and you cannot download a snapshot. The git repository is simply missing.

How do I know if https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/alsaequal/ is real or not? Let's say I don't want it to disappear, I want to have it in the new AUR. I see it's an aur4 url, so I should be fine, right?

You know it is real if you can find it in the search and the PKGBUILD link works.

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karol

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

I see it's an aur4 url, so I should be fine, right?

No. What you linked to is the placeholder that got migrated from the old AUR, nothing else.

Argh.

@Trilby
Thanks, I've noticed it on some other package, but filed it under "check in an hour if the glitch went away".

@progandy
I think I get it now, thanks.

Salkay

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Registered: 2014-05-22

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

It looks like the placeholders now 404. For example, https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/alsaequal/ is now dead. Does this mean that the comments have also been deleted? I was considering adopting some packages. From memory, some were non-working PKGBUILDs, but had useful information in the comments.

=EDIT=
Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20150801152 … es/lingot/

Last edited by Salkay (2015-08-11 01:57:03)

karol

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

See https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 31341.html

The comments may be gone now. You had two months so ... try google cache.

Salkay

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

try google cache.

Google cache didn't have it but I found it here.

You had two months so ...

Well, the original package was never mine, so I had one month in which to adopt the orphans. I have 111 packages installed from the AUR. I suppose I could have manually visited the webpages for all 111 packages to see which were migrated and which were not in the last month, but that would have been quite time consuming. I presume many users will adopt packages now, when it's easy to see which packages are missing (e.g. with `pacuar -Syu`, etc.).

karol

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

I was talking about the old aur website with comments.
http://www.nongnu.org/lingot/ is still here, no need for wayback machine.

Salkay

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

I was talking about the old aur website with comments.
http://www.nongnu.org/lingot/ is still here, no need for wayback machine.

Oh sorry, that was the wrong link. I found it here. As you can see, someone commented with a (supposedly) working PKGBUILD.

karol

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

Even if the PKGBUILD works, you should check it against the current guidelines before submitting it to the AUR.

Salkay

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Re: [solved] AUR4 search

Yes, definitely. I also have a fairly pedantic style guide that I adhere to (e.g. trailing whitespace, correct quotation marks, etc.).