[aur-general] Copy package from AUR archive
Hello, What are good practices of re-submitting deleted AUR3 packages? Namely 'strongswan-git'.
On 30.09.2016 19:43, Yassine Imounachen via aur-general wrote:
Hello, What are good practices of re-submitting deleted AUR3 packages? Namely 'strongswan-git'.
Hello Yassine, For strongSwan, a git package (even though there existed one once) does not make sense, because the git master branch is relatively unstable. If you actually want an up to date strongSwan package that is usable, you need to curate the commits. Just follow the best practices that are outlined on the wiki[1]. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards, Noel Kuntze GPG Key ID: 0x63EC6658 Fingerprint: 23CA BB60 2146 05E7 7278 6592 3839 298F 63EC 6658
On 09/30/2016 01:43 PM, Yassine Imounachen via aur-general wrote:
Hello, What are good practices of re-submitting deleted AUR3 packages? Namely 'strongswan-git'.
There are no official good practices, but IMPHO, all packages migrated from the AUR3 (whether deleted or not) *should* have had their history migrated from the aur-mirror archive (assuming a more accurate history didn't exist in the maintainer's control). To that end, I wrote a quick script for importing an AUR3 package, you can see it in my pkgbuilds repo: https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds It isn't very polished, but it is better than nothing. ... Other than my subjective opinion about AUR3 history, the rules for submitting a deleted AUR3 package are of course the same rules as for submitting a brand-new package -- Eli Schwartz
OK what I did really mean is how to update it
On 30 Sep 2016 6:43 pm, "Yassine Imounachen"
Hello, What are good practices of re-submitting deleted AUR3 packages? Namely 'strongswan-git'.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Yassine Imounachen via aur-general
OK what I did really mean is how to update it
That is a very unspecific question and in practice the answer may be two little changes (version numbers) or a total rewrite of the build and packaging functions because literally all the things changed - or the former way it was done was terrible beyond belief. If you're looking for the current version, see the url= line in the pkgbuild and open that link in your browser. All the other things you can learn from [0]. Please ask away when you need further help. cheers! mar77i [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
On 09/30/2016 03:22 PM, Yassine Imounachen via aur-general wrote:
OK what I did really mean is how to update it
Let's try that again.
the rules for submitting a deleted AUR3 package are of course the same rules as for submitting a brand-new package.
The old, AUR3 version will give you a good idea of how it was done in the past, and you may wish to stick with that, or you may disagree and wish to do something completely different, or upstream might have changed something, etc. etc. etc.... But that has absolutely nothing to do with "submitting a deleted AUR3 package", it is the same as when you take over an orphaned package, or notice your own package isn't building properly anymore. -- Eli Schwartz
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Eli Schwartz
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Martin Kühne
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Noel Kuntze
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Yassine Imounachen