June 2006 - Pacman-dev - lists.archlinux.org

[pacman-dev] PM_LOCK
by wael＠siemens-mobiles.org 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hi, in lib/libalpm/alpm.h, you define PM_LOCK to "/tmp/pacman.lck", but the lock file should depend on config->root, a scenario: I have a chroot at /home/chroot where I ran the following: pacman -Sy -r /home/chroot xorg gnome gnome-extra kde And i want to update and/or install on my real root ( / ), so I run pacman -Syu but pacman will exit since /tmp/pacman.lck exist, this is wrong, "pacman -r /home/chroot" should not lock "pacman -r /" since pacman will not touch /var/lib/pacman... Regards, Wael Nasreddine

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[pacman-dev] New development
by Aaron Griffin 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Ok, I'm going to jump in about here. For those who aren't on the arch-dev list, I am basically going to be MIA for a week or so due to various personal things. When that is over, I'm going to try and pick up development where Aurelian left off, as he seems to be incommunicato. Anyway, I know you frugalware peeps have lots of developments beyond what is in the main pacman3 tree. I'd like to make a run through this and find out what's going on, and where exactly the current development is at, on both sides of the fence. So, if you have any info for me, or anything important for me to go over while I have no computer (I'll probably print the source if it's not too big), let me know. Thanks, phrak

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[pacman-dev] add message() function call for use in *.install/.PKGINFO files
by Роман Кирилич 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Different packages use different style to output some info for user. They use echo, but prefixes information with different chars (" >>> ", " ==> ", " >> " etc.). I think it will be better if there will be message() function that can be used for such purpose. This will not only make all such info messages the same style, but also this will allow to cache such messages and display them after upgrade process (this is very useful when upgrading many packages). What do you think?

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] display uncompressed package size before downloading
by VMiklos 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

hi gensync part: http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… pacman/libalpm part: http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2… udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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[pacman-dev] little bug with pacman and root
by wael＠siemens-mobiles.org 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hi, Let's consider the following setup: I have a distribution (any distribution it doesn't matter) installed on / where am looking to install arch or frugalware on a chroot from it, So pacman has been extracted to / and pacman.static is used... let's suppose /arch is the chroot... As i always install and upgrade I keep the pacman cache in /home partition under /home/cache/pacman and create a symlink ( /var/cache/pacman -> /home/cache/pacman ), so for instance /arch/var/cache/pacman is a symlink to /home/cache/pacman (I know the link is broken but that's the idea), Now I run pacman.static -Sy -r /arch bash db binutils kernel26 Of course pacman will begin by saying, /arch/var/cache/pacman does not exist... creating it (since the symlink is broken) but it also fails to create it, so pacman decides to use /tmp and here it is all messed up, it start downloading packages to /arch/tmp and it fails on checking packages integrity it seems it is trying to do that on /tmp instead of /arch/tmp.. Regards, Wael Nasreddine

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[pacman-dev] Pacman color output
by Wael Nasreddine 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't know if you have discussed this before, any chance to see color support to pacman's output? i really loved the way pacman does the download when adding "ilovecandy" to /etc/pacman.conf :D, so I tried to add some colors but since the string length is checked in pm_fprintf function, it may break the message, I tried doing it in another way (by simply adding an extra char *color to pm_fprintf function) but I am not a C++ programer so i failed specially about adding strings together (color + str + CLEAR) to fprintf, anyone interresting in doing it ? Regards, Wael Nasreddine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEgsaFVWU5RcjdGKIRApalAJ0btdXfcN25YSWz7y8YCXYnJpVYvgCgvWF4 sK/TTvg3yz8T2y6TboCqDv0= =DoAW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[pacman-dev] internationalized package descriptions?
by Maksim Sipos 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, I've been interested in i18n support for the upcoming pacman. I've noticed patches on the subject of gettext support and all that and I think that is wonderful! Now I'm thinking how it would be feasible to implement localized package descriptions. I am imagining something like pkgdesc_xx fields (xx being the language codes) in PKGBUILD scripts, and smart pacman frontends that would show the translated description string based on the users locale, if it is available (otherwise, show the english pkgdesc). Now, before I start hacking at the code, I would like to see what others think of the idea, and potential ways of designing it. I'm also interested in knowing how well adding fields like this would play out in pacman's database. I think it would be really cool if pacman had this feature :). Cheers, Maksim

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[pacman-dev] [PATCH] gettext support - part 1
by VMiklos 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

hi http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/gettext.diff.bz2 here is the first part of the gettext support patch it only adds the necessary gettext function calls. the advantage of this patch: - it contains most of the modifications so once you apply it, probably the other patches will apply without any conflits, the conflicting parts are contained in this patch - it's simple, almost doesn't do anything else so it can be reviewed easily the next patch will modify the build system, but that should be really a separate patch imho as usual, probably it does not apply cleanly, Aurel could you fix it up? (as you said it's not a problem if it does not apply) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org

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