That's very unfortunate and quite a bit counter-intuitive. Is this final? J. Leclanche On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 at 13:36:29, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to upload a split package of sddm -qt5-git and -git (attached), but when I upload it, it says: "You are not allowed to overwrite the sddm-qt5-git package.". I'm a maintainer of both of course. Is this a bug? If not, what's the correct course of action? [...]
No, this isn't a bug. You cannot overwrite a package from a different package base. What you can do is:
1. Rename the sddm-qt5-git package without changing its package base:
pkgbase=sddm-qt5-git pkgname=sddm-qt5-git-old
This might also require some "$pkgname" references to be replaced by "$pkgbase" in order to successfully build a new package.
2. Submit the updated package to the AUR. This will result in the package name changing from sddm-qt5-git to sddm-qt5-git-old.
3. Upload the new split package.
4. Request the old (renamed) package (sddm-qt5-git-old) to be merged into the new one.
Please read both [1] and [2] for details.
Regards, Lukas
[1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-May/028594.html [2] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-June/028631.html