In my haste I neglected to update the .SRCINFO file. Updating it and pushing a commit resolved my issues.
Thanks again Eli! On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:55 PM Dan B <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll give it another try. > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:53 PM Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 11/01/2017 01:39 PM, Dan B via aur-general wrote: >> > Gist: I need a TU's help merging fd-git into fd-rs-git, as fd-rs-git is >> not >> > a valid merge target. (details below) >> >> No you don't need a TU's help, you just need an explanation as to how >> the AUR expects you to do what you want to do. >> >> > I contacted the previous maintainer of this package (Wesley Moore) >> > regarding this package since it wasn't populating in the aur. I received >> > the following message: >> > >> >> Hi Dan, >> >> >> >> I deleted the package mid September as there are now proper releases >> for >> > fd. I can't see it on aur.archlinux.org either so not sure I can add >> you as >> > a maintainer. >> >> This was silly, "there are now proper releases" is not a reason to >> dislike the idea of having the option to install a development release. >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Wes >> > >> > I can clone fd-rs-git, but am unable to push changes to the aur: >> > >> >> ยป git push origin master >> >> Counting objects: 5, done. >> >> Delta compression using up to 4 threads. >> >> Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. >> >> Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1021 bytes | 1021.00 KiB/s, done. >> >> Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) >> >> remote: error: invalid pkgbase: fd-git, expected fd-rs-git >> >> remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master >> >> To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/fd-rs-git.git >> >> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) >> >> error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh:// >> > [email protected]/fd-rs-git.git' >> >> The hook told you exactly the problem: you cannot push an fd-git pkgbase >> to the fd-rs-git repository. You will need to push an fd-rs-git pkgbase >> containing updates that were inspired by fd-git. >> >> Once you have created the updated fd-rs-git pkgbase, you can submit a >> merge request to have the comments for fd-git transferred to the >> fd-rs-git package. >> >> But I wouldn't bother as the only comments are discussing the actual move. >> >> Just resubmit the software as an update to the fd-rs-git package, and >> submit a deletion request for the fd-git package. >> >> -- >> Eli Schwartz >> >>
