On Thu 16 Dec 2010 10:35 +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

Hi, Loui!

I'm recently having a look at FS#12902 [1]. It's about comparing names to the official repo databases when uploading a package. I think that would be really easy to implement if we have an additional directory where we put repo databases and keep them in sync using a `pacman -Sy` cronjob or something similar. Parsing the databases is very easy using Archive_Tar (which we already use anyways) as well. Only thing I don't like about that is the delay caused by mirrors and the cronjob which will be a problem if we decide to move a package from the official repos to [unsupported].

What do you think about that? Should we implement this at all? :)

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12902

Hello Mr Fleischer! Yeah I think it should be implemented. We can check the local sync database (or point it to any arbitrary pacman database in config.inc) and create dummy entries for packages that are already in the binary repos. To get around the problem of moving packages to [unsupported] we can make the upload restriction exempt for Trusted Users, since they'll probably be the ones moving the packages and should be trusted to check the binary repos before submitting to the AUR. You should send this to the mailing list too! CCd Cheers.