On Thu, 5 May 2016, Eli Schwartz wrote:

Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:27:04 From: Eli Schwartz Reply-To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" To: aur-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [aur-general] a build failure case

On 05/05/2016 08:59 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

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oleo in aur for amd athelon k8 fails to build because a dif file the package needs is not at the specified url. I realize several other kinds of build failures exist depending on particular packages in aur and what I propose here will not cover those kind of cases. For oleo though, might it be possible to put code into the package build file that first would do a google file:filename.ext search for the needed file and check md5sums of those files excluding all that do not match the specified md5sum specified by the author for that missing file then download the missing file from an alternate site that passed the md5sum test? I've not done package build coding yet so don't know what is or isn't possible and how to implement it yet. The code if it were ever successfully implemented might if reused cover this kind of case across the aur itself and only if something like that can be done would I consider my proposal any kind of success.

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I don't know what you are talking about. The oleo[1] package in the AUR specifies a single diff file[2] and that file is most certainly available.

And if it weren't, it is the maintainer's responsibility to fix their shoddy packaging immediately.

I'll run the package build inside script and catch the specific error it was probably a patch file I remember part of its name had "12" before the file suffix.

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