June 2009 - Pacman-dev - lists.archlinux.org

[pacman-dev] Idea: Merge -U and -S (half universal transaction)?
by Nagy Gabor 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Hi! After killing pmsyncpkg_t, there is not much difference between -S and -U transactions. The only difference is that trans->packages come from pkgcache (-S) or they are loaded from file (-U). And of course, with -S we have an extra step, we have to actually download the packages. However, -U is much more "stupid" than -S atm. Now the removes field is attached to pmpkg_t, so we could implement FS#3492 without pain, the conflict resolving part from sync.c can be reused without any modification*. Or if we allow "mixed" trans->packages list (pkg->origin can indicate that we have a file[-U] or repo[-S] package), even the implementaion of FS#5798 should be also straightforward. The only difference between PKG_FROM_CACHE and PKG_FROM_FILE packages, that PKG_FROM_CACHE needs to be downloaded. Then -U would become a sync transaction (internally), and add_commit would be a helper function only. *: I started to work on the implementation of mixed target list, and I realised that the most annoying "difference" is that PKG_FROM_CACHE packages are not duplicated, so they are mustn't be freed (the new _alpm_pkg_free_trans should be used), but PKG_FROM_FILE packages must be freed. How much memory can we spare by not duplicating sync packages (not calling _alpm_pkg_dup when adding them to transaction target)? The whole base repo is <0.5 MB atm. Does this hack "worth"? With the old behaviour, implementing this idea (and so FS#3492 and FS#5798) would be really nice. With the new behaviour it would not. (And I don't really like the need for _alpm_pkg_free_trans neither.) Bye

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[pacman-dev] MirrorBrain for mirrors?
by Tim G 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hey everyone, I am not sure if it has been brought up before, but has anyone thought about providing a MirrorBrain http repository? OpenSUSE has one at http://download.opensuse.org/ and it works quite well. If we are able to provide something like this, it would mean that we could provide transparent mirroring. MirrorBrain even looks after creating mirror lists http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-KDE4-LiveCD -i686.iso?mirrorlist Anyways, have a look at it, http://mirrorbrain.org/features -- Tim Groeneveld (Application Developer) Digital Pacific www.digitalpacific.com.au <http://www.digitalpacific.com.au/>

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Ensure build failure if a single build() command fails
by Jürgen Hötzel 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, I doubt this was by intention: errors in build() functions are only fatal, if "--log" is enabled. I just made a buggy pkg because some "install ..." commands where not handled by "|| return 1". Our PKGBUILDs are cluttert full of "|| return 1". Failing commands in build functions should always result in an build error. Signed-off-by: Juergen Hoetzel <juergen(a)archlinux.org> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index f46b7f8..84d4599 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -703,6 +703,7 @@ run_build() { local ret=0 if [ "$LOGGING" -eq 1 ]; then BUILDLOG="${startdir}/${pkgbase}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${CARCH}-build.log" + BUILDLOG_CMD="tee $BUILDLOG" if [ -f "$BUILDLOG" ]; then local i=1 while true; do @@ -714,11 +715,11 @@ run_build() { done mv "$BUILDLOG" "$BUILDLOG.$i" fi - - build 2>&1 | tee "$BUILDLOG"; ret=${PIPESTATUS[0]} else - build 2>&1 || ret=$? + BUILDLOG_CMD="cat -" fi + + build 2>&1 | ${BUILDLOG_CMD}; ret=${PIPESTATUS[0]} # reset our shell options eval "$shellopts" -- 1.6.3.2

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[pacman-dev] Patches for srcpac
by Loui Chang 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

This seems like the most appropriate mailing list for this. Cheers!

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[pacman-dev] Package signing again....
by Gerhard Brauer 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Hello, i would like to push this again, as a remainder... Maybe there are now more pacman Devs with the time to continue the work on GPG signed packages. We have the threads in 12/2008 here: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-December/007761.html http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-December/007808.html I'd have the impression we're on a good way there - but lack of man power... Regards Gerhard

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Remove unused string.h from src/pacman/remove.c
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

This header was used in the code for the function strdup() that is not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- src/pacman/remove.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/remove.c b/src/pacman/remove.c index 11bc157..1968744 100644 --- a/src/pacman/remove.c +++ b/src/pacman/remove.c @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> -#include <string.h> #include <alpm.h> #include <alpm_list.h> -- 1.6.3.1

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] NEWS file updates for makepkg and contrib
by Allan McRae 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> --- We should really enforce that people do this when they submit patches... NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f0a88fd..c2eb8af 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,25 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.3.0 - makepkg: + - package splitting support! - see PKGBUILD-split.proto + - limit fakeroot usage with addition of package() function + - info pages are handled like man pages and not other documentation + - configuration option for man/info page directories + - added ability to automatically remove files from package + - configuration option for default LDFLAGS + - specify alternative configuration file with --config flag + - check all integrity checksums provided in PKGBUILD + - fix pkgver/pkgrel updating in SCM packages + - BUILDSCRIPT option removed from makepkg.conf. Now specified + during configure + - enforce no ">" or "<" in provides array + - package compression autodetection + - check PKGBUILD for CRLF line endings + - fix reading PKGBUILD from pipe + - various fixes to increase compatibility with BSDs & Mac OSX + - contrib + - pacscripts - print install scripts for a package + 3.2.2 - log pacsave warnings to pacman.log (FS#12531) - separate local DB creation and writing (FS#12263) - pacman-optimize: rewrite and refresh (FS#11767) -- 1.6.3.1

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[pacman-dev] [TRANSLATION] Romanian translation for pacman and libalpm
by volodia macovei 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I hope now is in good health and complete... two archive with files pacman_ro_RO.po and libalpm_ro_RO.po ... pls tell me if is i order...

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[pacman-dev] Mime-type filtering?
by Aaron Griffin 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/23 Samed Beyribey <ras0ir(a)eventualis.org>: >> Well i just noticed that, (probably) mailman rejects my attachment (it >> was 9.5k) >> so i've put it on my web site: >> http://eventualis.org/pacman/0001-fixed-typos-and-alignment-problem-in-Turk… >> >> This is my last mail about this patch, again, i feel so sorry. > > This isn't your fault. > > Aaron, do we not allow gzipped and bzipped files through? I guess not. What's the mime-type for these? Considering mailman uses a whitelist, would anyone be able to construct a decent list that covers pretty much all attachment types we'd want?

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[pacman-dev] testing if tar.gz attachments are filtered
by Allan McRae 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

This is a test to see if .tar.gz files are filtered on this list. Results should be obvious...

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