On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:25:19AM +0530, Vinay Shastry wrote: > On a side note, has adding these to cvs given a thought? Yes.
>so that we > can abs and get the whole unsupported stuff downloaded > /var/abs/unsupported or something like that ? > No. [community] is available through abs though. It was deemed too unsafe to be distributing packages in unsupported through a mechanism like abs, where we have no opporitunity to even warn people about what they may be getting themselves into. > On 10/15/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey > > > > I wrote a script this morning to facilitate the building and > > installation of PKGBUILDs from the AUR. I know there are other scripts > > to do this, but in my experience they have been unreliable, and break > > when the AUR is updated. > > > > My script should avoid that, as it doesn't ever actually read the > > contents of a page of the AUR. It's also a fair bit simpler in its > > workings, using only really basic bash. > > > > Script: > > http://iphitus.loudas.com/scripts.php > > > > Explanation of how it works: > > http://iphitus.blogspot.com/2005/10/aur-scraping-script.html > > > > Judd: What are the chances of including a script such as this with > > pacman? Add a few warnings to say that packages may be unsafe, and it > > should be fine. What do you think? > > I hope I'm not stepping on Judd's toes by answering, but the chances are roughly zero. You are aware, of course, that all packages in the directory you parse over are never deleted, so you could be scraping up something that a TU had deleted because it was malicious, or that may have been moved to [community], or elsewhere. -S
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