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November 2024

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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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