[arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

[Allan McRae]

Brendan Long wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:56 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
>> 2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote:
>>> <big snip>
>>>> I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make
>>>> your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every
>>>> package I want, although Arch has most of them). In most cases building
>>>> the next version of a package consists of changing the package number
>>>> and then running makepkg. It would be nice if there was a script that
>>>> attempted to do this on updates and then informed you if it didn't work.
>>>> -Brendan
>>>>
>>> While a nice idea (perhaps suggest it as a feature to pakthan or
>>> yaourt?), I don't see how such a script would know that there IS a new
>>> version of a package if the repos aren't updated. Unless you're actually
>>> referring to marking some packages as 'I compiled this myself, please do
>>> that again for me when the repo updates'?
>>>
>>> In the latter case, you could probably just write a simple bash script
>>> to grep/sed the relevant numbers and --configure options, I do that to
>>> mirror kernel26-ice to kernel26-rt-ice.
>>>
>> Similar as it is done in Debian (and Ubuntu) with the debian/watch files?
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Greg
> 
> Huh, that's pretty cool. Just knowing when Arch has a new version out
> and trying to recompile my custom package would be good enough for me
> though :)

There are tools that let you do this...   srcpac is in [extra], but I am 
not sure how well it works currently (the git version may improve things).

Allan