On 05/05/2016 08:59 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > oleo in aur for amd athelon k8 fails to build because a dif file the > package needs is not at the specified url. I realize several other kinds > of build failures exist depending on particular packages in aur and what I > propose here will not cover those kind of cases. > For oleo though, might it be possible to put code into the package build > file that first would do a google file:filename.ext search for the needed > file and check md5sums of those files excluding all that do not match the > specified md5sum specified by the author for that missing file then > download the missing file from an alternate site that passed the md5sum > test? > I've not done package build coding yet so don't know what is or isn't > possible and how to implement it yet. The code if it were ever > successfully implemented might if reused cover this kind of case across > the aur itself and only if something like that can be done would I > consider my proposal any kind of success. > > > > -- >
I don't know what you are talking about. The oleo[1] package in the AUR specifies a single diff file[2] and that file is most certainly available. And if it weren't, it is the maintainer's responsibility to fix their shoddy packaging immediately. -- Eli Schwartz [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oleo [2] https://answers.launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/oleo_1.99.16-11.diff.gz
