Re: [aur-general] Plymouth packaging suggestions requested from TUs

Firstly, apologies for the top post. Posting from my phone doesn't allow bottom posting. Yes, plymouth-git builds, but it fails to load either the drm or frame-buffer renderers in execution causing it to fall back to text mode. I have checked my initramfs, and all the files for plymouth are correctly installed. Hope that clears up what I mean by plymouth-git being broken. Cheers. Lachlan.

On 25 Feb 2014, at 22:10, WorMzy Tykashi wrote:

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On 25 February 2014 10:44, Padfoot wrote: Hi,

I am the current maintainer of the AUR packages:

plymouth-release https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plymouth-release/ plymouth-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plymouth-git/

plymouth-release is at version 0.8.8 on http://www.freedesktop.org/software/plymouth/releases/ and is working plymouth-git at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cgit/plymouth/ is currently broken

While investigation the plymouth-git breakage, I found source for plymouth-0.8.9 in Fedora Rawhide nightlies. 0.8.9 builds and works correctly, but as it is from the Fedora Rawhide nightlies, the source is subject to frequent changes.

I am seeking suggestions of what I could/could not should/should not do with the 0.8.9 package.

I could update plymouth-release to this package, but it is not an "official" release. I could temporarily replace plymouth-git with this package until git is working, but it's not really a git source. I could upload a new plymouth-rawhide package, but I don't want to spam the AUR with yet another version unnecessarily.

FInally I could just do nothing and wait until the "official" update to the source on http://www.freedesktop.org/software/plymouth/releases/

Bear in mind, as the sources are from Fedora Rawhide nightlies, I have embeded the source archive in the package to prevent breakage from frequent updates. The package size including the source is 1.2MB.

Of course, I would like to share this updated (as of Feb 2014) source with the Arch community, but under the circumstances, I think advice on how to proceed from the TUs is warranted.

Thanks. Lachlan.

plymouth-git builds here in a clean-chroot, so I assume that upstream already addressed the breakage, or your build failure is a result of your system configuration.

Personally, I'd leave the situation as it is, plymouth = stable, plymouth-git = unstable/testing. There's little point packaging 0.8.9 in the interim, people that switch to it will (presumably) have to switch back once it goes "official".

WorMzy