November 2024 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration
by lists.archlinux＠ihavea.quest 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Has there been any update/activity in this regard? This was an excellent idea! -- txtsd https://ihavea.quest On 2/1/22 1:55 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and > currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s > solve this centralized by integrating nvchecker into archweb. > > nvchecker is a program which can monitor versions upstreams, github, > pypi, haskell, crates.io or custom provided for updates. Various > packagers already use nvchecker in some form. [1] > > The idea is that every package in svn has a .NVCHECKER file > (linux/trunk/.NVCHECKER) which contains the package specific settings i.e.: > > [go] > source = “github” > github = “golang/go” > prefix = “go” > use_max_tag = true > exclude_regex = “.(release|weekly|rc|alpha|beta).” > > Archweb will have a systemd service which regularly goes through the > pkgbases, check if the file exists, runs nvchecker and if required flags > the package out of date automatically. > > For Github sources a token is required so we can do 5000 requests per > hour, Arch Linux already has a Github account so this is no issue. > > Felix already has a script which converts a subset of packages to > nvchecker. This could be extended to apply to more packages. [2] > > The question is if anyone object to checking these small .NVCHECKER > files into our svn repository. If there are no real objections, I'll > start implementing this functionality into archweb in two weeks. > > [1] https://nvchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#check-crates-io > [2] > https://github.com/felixonmars/archlinux-futils/blob/master/arch-to-nvcheck… > > Greetings, > > Jelle van der Waa

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Re: About AUR accreditation policy
by Óscar García Amor 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

El mar, 22-10-2024 a las 13:57 -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini escribió: > If individual attribution is needed, it can be obtained using version > control history. Yes, but this does not happen when moving a package from AUR to the official repositories. For example in the case of the package we are talking about there is no git history [1] since it stayed in the AUR [2]. However that could be a very good solution, always move the git repository from the AUR when a package is promoted and vice versa (move the git from the official repository to the AUR) when the package is left without maintainer. Greetings. [1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/textpieces/-/comm… [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=textpieces -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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Is there a way to submit a one-shot update to an Aur package without becoming the maintainer?
by David C. Rankin 03 Nov '24

03 Nov '24

Arch and Aur Folks, I updated https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mongodb44 to build with the last 4.4.29 source and patched for boost 1.86. The package builds fine now against current Arch. I wanted to pass along the results of those efforts and update the Aur package, but didn't want to take on the maintainer role. Is there a way to provide an update for the package and bring in back into date without becoming the maintainer? I have a signed source package I'm happy to pass along if that is something the admins can do. There is about 8 hours of effort to that went to find and fix all the issues, I'd like to make that available to whoever may need the 4.4 version of mongodb. I didn't think I'd ever need it, but it is the last version that wasn't built requiring avx - so it is useful if you need it for those cases or need it in a VM, etc.. (note: some parts of a 3rd party package included along with the source will need a significant 'type' change to suppress the char8_t -Wc++20-compat type warning, but that's just something for the future, and there is one more -Wredundant-move I need to fix in src/mongo/db/matcher/expression_array.h that somehow got missed in the hundreds of thousands of lines of output) I've tried posting to aur-general, but my posts do not ever make it to the list. I don't mind picking up the maintainer role, but am hesitant to get caught be another large boost deprecation/removal during a busy week and not have time to devote to it. Is a one-shot update something that can be done for this package without becoming the maintainer? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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