On 1/7/20 22:41, Brian Allred via aur-general wrote:

Hi all,

yochananmarqos made a good point on my gpmdp https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gpmdp/ package. It's a -bin package, but I didn't originally submit it as such. Is there a way to change its name without losing the comment history and changelog? I can resubmit as gpmdp-bin if necessary, just wanted to check first.

Thanks, Brian

The way I did it with one of my packages (I forget which, but one of the packages' upstream switched source version control backends so the package name had to change to reflect it) was I: 1.) Created a new package for the "target" name (for example, foobar-git) and submitted to AUR under new name 2.) On old package (e.g. foobar-hg), I submitted an AUR merge request to merge *into* foobar-git. This is important! Make sure you marge the OLD into the NEW, not the other way around. While not guaranteed, it should be a pretty quick approval because you own both the old and new packages. 3.) Once the merge request completes, ta-da! Do a fresh pull in your local "foobar-git" repo and doublecheck to make sure the PKGBUILD, .SRCINFO, etc. match the desired package name. It's a pretty simple process, just not really documented anywhere to my knowledge. -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info

On 1/7/20 23:44, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote:

On Tue Jan 7, 2020 at 10:56 PM, brent s. wrote:

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It's a pretty simple process, just not really documented anywhere to my knowledge.

It's documented here, but certainly could be expanded upon: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Requests

Apologies; I meant the process of "renaming" an AUR package isn't documented anywhere. :) If anyone happens to be logged into the ArchWiki at the moment (I'd have to do a password reset, it seems), mind noting that in the Requests section of that article under the Merge option? -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info