[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...

[Allan McRae]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
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>> Allan McRae wrote:
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>>     
>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Allan McRae wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for
>>>>> which there is no hurry.  These include packages without the arch in
>>>>> their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with
>>>>> man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages.  See
>>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Unimportant_Rebuild_List
>>>>>
>>>>> Do people think this is useful and should I move it to the
>>>>> DeveloperWiki?
>>>>>
>>>>> Allan
>>>>>
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>>>>>           
>>>> Good job.
>>>>
>>>> And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I
>>>> sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed
>>>> packages [#2] are now "any"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [#1]
>>>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/005960.html
>>>> [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any.txt
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>>> I'm being lazy...   any change you can easily generate an updated list
>>> for [core]/[extra]?  Don't worry about it if it will be a hassle.
>>>
>>> Allan
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>> No problem, I can do a "light scan" making a difference between this
>> list and list of current packages.
>> I guess that doing again a "deep scan" don't make much sense,
>>
>>
>> Good Luck!
>>
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>>     
> List updated [#1]
>
> This is based on old list, deleting current converted packages and
> packages deleted from repos.
> No new packages are added because I didn't a deep/fine scan. For each repo.
>
> If any have a time, the idea to do the deep scan is (what I remember was
> done manually in the past)
>
> 1) Download this db [#2].
> 2) Keep with 0 size files from db. -> packages names.
> 3) Scan from previous result list if there are any ELF32/ELF64 LSB
> (relocatables (objects files, kernel modules, ar archives, etc),
> executables, shared objects) and discard ELF for others archs (for
> example AVR, ARM, SPARC) inside each package.
>
>
> [#1] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any-20091019.txt
> [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/db-20091019.tar.bz2
>   

Thanks,

I have added the [core] and [extra] packages to my wiki page.   A TU 
probably wants to add this to the [community] TODO page (which needs a 
big update: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_todo)

Allan