Re: [aur-general] Fwd: Replacing package
On 8/5/19 6:02 PM, Rhys Perry via aur-general wrote: > I have a package (i3-gaps-rounded) and would like to rename it to > i3-gaps-rounded-git in order to comply with standards. What would I have to > add to the PKGBUILD of each packages in order to force people who have > installed i3-gaps-rounded to move to i3-gaps-rounded-git? Renaming the package is not sufficient to comply with the standards anyway. Why does it clone a git repository in prepare() instead of using the source=() array? Why does it then play strange games with git archive, gzip and tar just to copy the source code from one directory to another? Why does it use "pkgver=latest"? Some of these are grounds for removing the package from the AUR. Please read the entirety of https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines and fix the package entirely. If it is meant to download development versions, from git master, then it *also* needs to be renamed, yes. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] Fwd: Replacing package
On 8/5/19 6:19 PM, Chris Billington via aur-general wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:02 PM Rhys Perry via aur-general < > aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> I have a package (i3-gaps-rounded) and would like to rename it to >> i3-gaps-rounded-git in order to comply with standards. What would I have to >> add to the PKGBUILD of each packages in order to force people who have >> installed i3-gaps-rounded to move to i3-gaps-rounded-git? > provides=(i3-wm i3-gaps-rounded) > replaces=(i3-gaps-rounded) While it is technically true that the "replaces" metadata would "force people who had one, to install the other", the proper answer is "do not force people to do that if they were expecting a stable version, replaces are for when software is renamed". The other answer is "the AUR is not a sync repository and therefore does not support replaces, it is possible there are AUR helpers which implement it though" (or they would, if the RPC interface actually supported that sort of search). -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [aur-general] Fwd: Replacing package
provides=(i3-wm i3-gaps-rounded) replaces=(i3-gaps-rounded) On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:02 PM Rhys Perry via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I have a package (i3-gaps-rounded) and would like to rename it to > i3-gaps-rounded-git in order to comply with standards. What would I have to > add to the PKGBUILD of each packages in order to force people who have > installed i3-gaps-rounded to move to i3-gaps-rounded-git? >
[aur-general] Fwd: Replacing package
I have a package (i3-gaps-rounded) and would like to rename it to i3-gaps-rounded-git in order to comply with standards. What would I have to add to the PKGBUILD of each packages in order to force people who have installed i3-gaps-rounded to move to i3-gaps-rounded-git?
