[pacman-dev] makepkg 3.2.1 testing
Hello,
while pacman 3.2.0 release was quite good, makepkg one was a bit worse. I think the main cause is the lack of testing. I personally always use the devel versions of pacman and makepkg, but I use pacman daily, while I only use makepkg very irregularly.
Anyway, the 3.2.1 release is close now, and all known makepkg bugs were fixed : - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076) - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149) - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179) - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
For FS#11292 (handling multiple source files which have the same name), a new feature had to be introduced. it is now possible to use the filename of your choice for remote sources, like this : source=('filename::http://path/to/file') This allows to handle multiple source files with same name, and also to handle more nicely weird URLs like http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6992.
So if some of the intensive makepkg users could just grab this pre 3.2.1 release and simply check everything is still fine with their PKGBUILDs, or more specifically check that all the bugs mentioned here are fixed, or that the new filename feature correctly, that would be great.
Simply gunzip the attached file, and either run it directly from where you extracted it, or put it somewhere in your path.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Xavier shiningxc@gmail.com wrote:
So if some of the intensive makepkg users could just grab this pre 3.2.1 release and simply check everything is still fine with their PKGBUILDs, or more specifically check that all the bugs mentioned here are fixed, or that the new filename feature correctly, that would be great.
One important point Dan just made : "speak up if you tested and things are working"
Because that is very useful for us, thanks!
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Xavier wrote:
Hello,
while pacman 3.2.0 release was quite good, makepkg one was a bit worse. I think the main cause is the lack of testing. I personally always use the devel versions of pacman and makepkg, but I use pacman daily, while I only use makepkg very irregularly.
Anyway, the 3.2.1 release is close now, and all known makepkg bugs were fixed :
- fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
I can confirm that this bug is fixed, at least for the case when an '?' is in the url.
- fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
- fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
- perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
the case-insensitive checksum comparison is fixed also.
For FS#11292 (handling multiple source files which have the same name), a new feature had to be introduced. it is now possible to use the filename of your choice for remote sources, like this : source=('filename::http://path/to/file') This allows to handle multiple source files with same name, and also to handle more nicely weird URLs like http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6992.
So if some of the intensive makepkg users could just grab this pre 3.2.1 release and simply check everything is still fine with their PKGBUILDs, or more specifically check that all the bugs mentioned here are fixed, or that the new filename feature correctly, that would be great.
Simply gunzip the attached file, and either run it directly from where you extracted it, or put it somewhere in your path.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Xavier shiningxc@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
while pacman 3.2.0 release was quite good, makepkg one was a bit worse. I think the main cause is the lack of testing. I personally always use the devel versions of pacman and makepkg, but I use pacman daily, while I only use makepkg very irregularly.
Anyway, the 3.2.1 release is close now, and all known makepkg bugs were fixed :
- fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
- fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
- fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
- perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
For FS#11292 (handling multiple source files which have the same name), a new feature had to be introduced. it is now possible to use the filename of your choice for remote sources, like this : source=('filename::http://path/to/file') This allows to handle multiple source files with same name, and also to handle more nicely weird URLs like http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6992.
pacman / makepkg 3.2.1 is in core now, so let's hope it received sufficient testing :)
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Eric Belanger
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Xavier