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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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AUR comments & things

I have some "discussion topics" that I don't think would fit in the AUR flyspray, so I'm going to post them here... who knows if word will get out or whatever... maybe I'll just throw a link in the bug tracker... *shrug*

Anyway:
* What happens when a certain package sucks?
i.e. joe_schmoe uploaded some-package-1.1-1, yet anyone can tell he screwed it up royally - it should have had a "conflicts" package, some-package is already up to version 2.3, and it should have had a post_remove function.  What if I want get rid of his crappy package and replace it with a better one?

* What happens when the original uploader just doesn't care? can anyone upload a new version of the package?

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sweiss

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Registered: 2004-02-16

Posts: 635

Re: AUR comments & things

Speaking of which, I was wondering if a user is able to edit his own uploads. I uploaded a package yesterday and forgot to pick the right catagory for it.

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: AUR comments & things

I don't understand the difference between uploading a package and "accessing the repo" via CVS. Could this be explained to me?  Is the CVS version for TUs only?

Also, what are the definitions of community and unsupported repositories; what's the difference, etc?

Finally, does AUR now contain ALL packages that were originally in the TURs, and therefore I can remove TUR repositories from my pacman.conf and add community and unsupported in their place?

Dusty

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tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Re: AUR comments & things

Another question: How do I get the packages/PGKBUILD uploaded to AUR? Some of the packages are build in the "community" respo, but what about the ones in "unsupported"?
Also can I get ABS to fetch them?

tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Re: AUR comments & things

I don't understand the difference between uploading a package and "accessing the repo" via CVS. Could this be explained to me?  Is the CVS version for TUs only?

As I understand it only TUs can use CVS, and the rest of us can only commit packages using the webinterface.

Finally, does AUR now contain ALL packages that were originally in the TURs, and therefore I can remove TUR repositories from my pacman.conf and add community and unsupported in their place?

Eventually, yes. Take a look at the TUR-mailinglist archive for more info.

Dusty

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Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: AUR comments & things

The good Xentac answered all these questions in a string of jabber comments to me. I'm not certain WHY he posted it to me instead of here, but I'm publishing it below:

(13:10:46) Xentac: packages are owned by whoever uploads them
(13:10:46) Xentac: if Alice uploads package x and it sucks
(13:10:46) Xentac: Bob can leave a comment saying, "this package sucks, it needs this, this, and this"
(13:10:46) Xentac: anyone who wants to use the package will see the comment
(13:10:47) Xentac: (BTW, this is all on the Unsupported side, the AUR repo has the CVS and an actual pacman repo behind it)
(13:10:47) Xentac: if someone else wants to modify it they have a couple of options
(13:10:47) Xentac: upload a version with a different name x-phrakture or x-nosuck
(13:10:47) Xentac: get the original uploader to fix it by leaving comments and/or emailing them
(13:10:47) Xentac: or get a TU to delete the package so they can upload a better one
(13:10:47) Xentac: to answer sweiss, the original uploader has total control of their package
(13:10:47) Xentac: they just upload over it
(13:10:47) Xentac: sorry, they have total control over it until a TU adopts it
(13:10:47) Xentac: then it's the TU's, not the original contributors
(13:10:47) Xentac: and you can tell them that they can ask these questions on the tur-users list
(13:10:47) Xentac: that's where we all hang out
(13:10:47) Xentac: or something
(13:10:47) Xentac: to better answer your AUR/Unsupported question, AUR is replacing TUR
(13:10:47) Xentac: Unsupported in replacing incoming
(13:10:47) Xentac: so Unsupported isn't a pacman repo
(13:10:47) Xentac: it's just a better interface to a bunch of PKGBUILDs and extra files

I think we've all been answered.  Also, screw the forum, the AUR gods hang out on the tur mailing list.  8)

Dusty

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