Am 19.05.2010 06:59, schrieb Allan McRae:
Hi,
I was thinking that it has been almost a year since the [community] repo switched to using the main db-scripts, but there are still a large number of packages without the package architecture in their name (the old scripts removed it). It is somewhere around 1/3 of the repo (anything build before 2009-07-14). In fact, one package (datemath) was built back in 2005!
Given these packages are obviously not updated much, it would be good to give them a rebuild to get new packaging policies in place such as: - get the package architecture in the file name - build with new toolchain, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc - compress with .xz format - convert to arch=any as necessary - $startdir usage - package() functions - ...
It would also be a good time to remove old packages that are really no longer of interest from the repo.
What do people think? I can create an internal TODO list for these packages that can be slowly worked through.
Allan
Good idea! Go ahaead!