On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Stefan Husmann <[email protected] > wrote:
> Am 13.12.2010 01:33, schrieb Seblu: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon 13 Dec 2010 00:14 +0100, Seblu wrote: > >>> Delete package : oracle 11gR1-1 > >>> ( > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23730&O=&L=&C=&K=&SB=&SO=&PP=&do_Orphans=&SeB= > ) > >>> > >>> Because, it's orphan, it's out-of-date, source link is broken > >>> (==cannot be built). > >> > >> Well, I must have deleted the source file in a recent cleanup. Sources > >> should not be hosted on the AUR. Otherwise let whoever the new > >> maintainer may be fix the PKGBUILD to retrieve sources remotely. > > > > Ok my bad. I don't see it was a local link... > > > > By trying to update this package i discovered that we need an oracle > > account and accept a license to be able to download the Zip files > > needed to installation. > > I don't believe this is simply scriptable in a PKGBUILD. So, we can: > > 1 - Delete the package > > 2 - Update the package and asking to user which want to build package > > to manually download zip files from oracle.com > > > > What would you prefer? > > > > I would prefer the latter. > There is a similar case with packages like steinberg-vst [1]. The package just assumes the source are already downloaded in the build directory as explained in comment. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16748 -- Cédric Girard
