[arch-general] vim runtime woes

[Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)]

On 05/14/10 at 09:34pm, Jan Steffens wrote:
> I'll edit the PKGBUILD, then. Should I submit it as a bug again?
> 
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> The vim runtime that can be retrieved via rsync is outdated.
> >>>
> >>> Some of the patches modify the runtime, and some of these changes
> >>> (e.g. 394) are lost when the runtime is overwritten with the runtime
> >>> from rsync.
> >>>
> >>> Not using the runtime from rsync at all also misses some updates.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts on how to solve this? One option would be to build vim
> >>> from Mercurial (http://vim.googlecode.com).
> >>
> >> I also agree that building from Mercurial might be our best bet here.
> >> The vim PKGBUILD is crazy complex as it is, and switching to Mercurial
> >> snapshots is probably a cleaner idea.
> >
> > And it looks like it DOES have tags, so "v7-2-325" would give us vim
> > 7.2 including up to patch 325.
> >
> > Simpler PKGBUILD? Check. More up to date runtime? Check. Less headache
> > to maintain? Check
> >
You can just send me the updated PKGBUILD. Been meaning to start working on
a transitional package anyway, but been crazy busy with work the last two
weeks.
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