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ParaSait

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Registered: 2023-08-19

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Existing package not listed in AUR?

Hi,

An AUR package for "ripdrag" doesn't seem to exist when I search it on the site or with my AUR helper: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=ripdrag (only "ripdrag-git" is there, but that's different)
I cloned the git repo for ripdrag at https://aur.archlinux.org/ripdrag.git, and to my surprise, it actually does already exist (and was updated fairly recently too), it's just not listed in any search results.

I'm confused. Is this a bug?

Thanks!

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Existing package not listed in AUR?

No bug.  When a package is removed from the AUR the git repo for the package files remains in place.  You can clone any number of "non-existent" AUR packages, and some of them will have left-over content from when they were last in the AUR.

Ripdrag was in the AUR.  And as you note, it was fairly recently as the version number is from several weeks ago.  But there have been several tagged releases from upstream in that time.  Now I'd infer that the AUR maintainer realized it was foolish to try to track a rapidly moving upstream with a version-tagged PKGBUILD and replaced it with a VCS PKGBUILD ripdrag-git.  This inference seems pretty solid given it is the same packager and the -git version appeared at about the same time that the other stopped getting updates.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-08-19 21:07:56)

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ParaSait

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Re: Existing package not listed in AUR?

I see, thanks for the quick response!

Trilby

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Re: Existing package not listed in AUR?

Also:

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … B5MND5YYV/
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … FXGT6Z6TM/

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flavius-as

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Re: Existing package not listed in AUR?

Are these packages ever removed from https://github.com/archlinux/aur.git?

Trilby

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Re: Existing package not listed in AUR?

I'm not entirely sure, but I think they are generally left there semi-indefinitely.  Every few years there is a effort to clean up the AUR, and I'd not be too surprised if removed packages might be purged at that point - but I suspect only if storage space was becoming a concern (and AUR source repos are trivially small).

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