On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:57:52PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 00:59, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > Any other people want to comment on this? Any TUs feel keeping AUR > >> >> > pages > >> >> > for [community] packages is necessary? > >> >> > > >> >> > Allan > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> I'd like to keep them. Especially if we get smooth non-destructive > >> >> transitions moving a package from community to unsupported. > >> > > >> > Hmm it seems like all it takes to move a package from community to > >> > unsupported is to upload the tarball with buildscripts via the AUR > >> > interface (pkgsubmit.php). Votes and comments are preserved. > >> > > >> > So if we're doing a clean up, we can disable tupkgupdate to be safe. > >> > tupkgupdate only runs a minute after the hour every hour. > >> > It shouldn't be a problem really. > >> > >> So are you suggesting that all community packages will also exist in > >> unsupported? If we're going to go that route, why not integrate the > >> AUR with the abs tree - seems there'd be no need to upload anything > >> that way, and there' be no file duplication. > > > > Oh I'm just saying if we do a clean up before the transition > > that it's pretty easy to move a package to unsupported, and we won't > > lose any data for those packages transferred. > > > > Yeah the running policy is for no duplication. > > Still... the idea of integrating the ABS tree brings up an interesting > solution to everyone's issues. If you import or read the ABS tree into > the AUR, we get all packages from all official repos, with comments > and all that fun stuff. Not that the developers will pay much > attention to it, but it'll sate the users who seem to want votes on > official packages
I dont know how applicaple this is, it sounds very neat, and i guess it will intergrate my FR http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12902 . Greg
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