[aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)

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Yardena Cohen

5 Jun 2017 5 Jun '17

6:41 p.m.

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Yardena Cohen wrote:

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Thore Boedecker via aur-general wrote:

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To make all these parts easily and comfortably available to all Arch Linux users I would like to move these few packages to [community] (if Yardena Cohen a.k.a. yar agrees for amavisd-new).

That's very polite of you, and once you're a TU you're welcome to take it over, but generally you don't need to ask permission. TUs have taken my packages before, and that's just how it is. :)

So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR": https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavis... https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-c... I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?

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Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen

5 Jun 5 Jun

6:46 p.m.

New subject: [aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)

Den 05-06-2017 kl. 20:41 skrev Yardena Cohen via aur-general:

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So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR":

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavis... https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-c...

I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?

Old AUR packages are preserved indefinitely. The history of the two packages you mention are still in AUR's git: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=amavisd-new https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=perl-convert-uulib (That said, I really like keeping the history together, so I'd vote for preserving AUR history when import to "real" Arch repositories, if at all possible...) -- Namasté, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen https://freso.dk/ AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Freso Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Freso

Eli Schwartz

6:54 p.m.

New subject: [aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)

On 06/05/2017 01:41 PM, Yardena Cohen via aur-general wrote:

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So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR":

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavis... https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-c...

I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?

The AUR does not delete history, ever. You can still clone the repo, but deleting it from the AUR caused the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname listing to be unlinked, all comments to be purged from the database, and the package itself to be added to the list of repo packages (otherwise known as the AUR blacklist) which cannot be pushed to. As for the svntogit history, repo packages are kept in SVN, and there is no practical way to import an AUR git repo even if you wanted to. :) -- Eli Schwartz

Thore Boedecker

7:01 p.m.

New subject: [aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)

Some small additions: As Eli mentioned, nothing is deleted. The read-only git access for amavisd-new can be found here: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/amavisd-new.git Also, these deleted AUR packages can be restored through SSH, i.e.: ssh aur@aur.archlinux.org restore <name> which will reverse the deletion, preserving the git history. Cheers, Thore On 05.06.17 - 13:54, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:

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On 06/05/2017 01:41 PM, Yardena Cohen via aur-general wrote:

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So, I just noticed that you took over my two packages: amavisd-new and perl-convert-uulib. Which is fine. But I also noticed that instead of preserving their git repo histories, you just started a new repo with the first commit called "import from AUR":

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/amavis... https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/perl-c...

I'm curious, other than my local backup, is this history now gone for good?

The AUR does not delete history, ever. You can still clone the repo, but deleting it from the AUR caused the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname listing to be unlinked, all comments to be purged from the database, and the package itself to be added to the list of repo packages (otherwise known as the AUR blacklist) which cannot be pushed to.

As for the svntogit history, repo packages are kept in SVN, and there is no practical way to import an AUR git repo even if you wanted to. :)

-- Eli Schwartz

Bruno Pagani

7:34 p.m.

New subject: [aur-general] saving AUR history (Re: TU Application: Thore Bödecker)

Le 05/06/2017 à 20:46, Frederik “Freso” S. Olesen via aur-general a écrit :

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(That said, I really like keeping the history together, so I'd vote for preserving AUR history when import to "real" Arch repositories, if at all possible...)

We all do. But as other pointed out, Arch repo are backed by SVN currently, so this is not possible. Switching to Git is planned, but will take some time. We might even be able to backport AUR history of packages moved to [community] depending on how the switch will work. Cheers, Bruno

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