[arch-dev-public] Why do we still have compatibility rename for community?
Hi Devs/TU's,
Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?
Varun
2007/11/30, Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64@gmail.com:
Hi Devs/TU's,
Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?
I don't know if AUR backend is able to handle packages with -arch suffix. I asked Paul about this quite some time ago, but didn't recieve a reply AFAIR. Simo, can you take a look at this?
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
2007/11/30, Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64@gmail.com:
Hi Devs/TU's,
Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?
I don't know if AUR backend is able to handle packages with -arch suffix. I asked Paul about this quite some time ago, but didn't recieve a reply AFAIR. Simo, can you take a look at this?
Sorry, thought I replied to this.
It doesn't handle the -arch suffix.
- P
2007/11/30, Paul Mattal paul@mattal.com:
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
2007/11/30, Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64@gmail.com:
Hi Devs/TU's,
Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?
I don't know if AUR backend is able to handle packages with -arch suffix. I asked Paul about this quite some time ago, but didn't recieve a reply AFAIR. Simo, can you take a look at this?
Sorry, thought I replied to this.
np.
It doesn't handle the -arch suffix.
oh, bad, that should be fixed....
On Nov 30, 2007 8:11 AM, Paul Mattal paul@mattal.com wrote:
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
2007/11/30, Varun Acharya ganja.guru.x64@gmail.com:
Hi Devs/TU's,
Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?
I don't know if AUR backend is able to handle packages with -arch suffix. I asked Paul about this quite some time ago, but didn't recieve a reply AFAIR. Simo, can you take a look at this?
Sorry, thought I replied to this.
It doesn't handle the -arch suffix.
I would encourage the one who fixes this issue to make things completely filename agnostic if possible. Note the %FILENAME% field in the pacman sync DB entries now. In addition, the .PKGINFO file in the package is quite easy to parse.
-Dan
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Dan McGee
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Paul Mattal
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Roman Kyrylych
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Varun Acharya