On Fri, 30 May 2014 at 14:03:00, artux wrote:
[...] Suppose I want to move/merge a single pkgbuild to a split build, is that possible? Will the pkgbase change, so the single pkgbuld will "disappear" automatically? Or the other way round, I want to move a pkg from split build to single build? Is there any documentation for this kind of stuff?
The logic is as follows: * Package bases can be overwritten by their maintainers and by TUs. * Packages can only be overwritten if they already belong to the package base of the submitted package. That means that you cannot upload a PKGBUILD containing a package which is already part of another package base. So in order to replace several packages with a split package, you will need to: 1. Upload a (basically empty) meta package with the new package base (unless you want to use a package base that already exists, e.g. the name of the first package to merge). 2. File a request to merge every package into the new split package. 3. Upload a proper split package to replace the meta package. It is a bit unfortunate that this process makes merging a bit more complicated and results in packages being unavailable for a short transition period (see steps 1 to 3). I didn't come up with something better yet. Should we give TUs extra power and allow for uploading PKGBUILDs that automatically overwrite (and merge) packages? The downside is that this would be quite complicated to implement and we would have to ensure that no strange things can happen, e.g. partly overwriting another split package by replacing a subset of its packages. Trusted Users would also have to have a very close look at the packages before merging to ensure that no malicious takeover happens. Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, artoo