[arch-general] AUR Release 1.5.0

[Simo Leone]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:21:43AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> -S,
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Simo Leone wrote:
>
>> I will be updating the AUR on main site sometime this evening. There
>> might be intermittent downtime and maintenance messages, but downtime
>> will be minimal.
>
> The new layout looks great.  But, it appears to have broken the aurvote 
> package.  I just updated a package via yaourt and when it tried to check 
> the vote status via aurvote, I got:
>
> ==> Checking for yaourt's vote status
> /tmp/aurvote-tmp-dokpm0/0.8.12-1</span></a></span><: No such file or 
> directory
> grep: /tmp/aurvote-tmp-dokpm0/0.8.12-1</span></a></span><: No such file or 
> directory
> grep: /tmp/aurvote-tmp-dokpm0/0.8.12-1</span></a></span><: No such file or 
> directory
> voted status not found voted status not found voted status not found voted 
> status not found voted status not found voted status not found ERROR: Can't 
> access http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID= voted status 
> not found
>
> It doesn't look like anyone has filed a bug for the problem yet.  I'll do 
> so as soon as I finish this e-mail.
>

We do not garauntee interface stability for unsupported tools people
make. Yeah, we probably broke a lot of stuff.

However, we're trying to develop something so peole wouldn't have to
rely on hacky web scrapers anymore. Cactus wrote a json interface, to
which the interface will remain fairly stable. It happens to be only
partially functional right now, but it's certainly a start.
http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php

-S
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