[arch-general] mythtv

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:06:07PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 01/09/2018 11:48 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:53:24PM +0000, Jameson via arch-general wrote:
> >> With the mythtv packages being dropped to the AUR
> > 
> > I must have missed this, and I don't see any other mention of it on this
> > list or on arch-announce or /news or pacman logs. Where or how else
> > should I have been paying attention?
> 
> We don't usually publish news advisories when packages are dropped from
> the repos. It is easy to tell, however, by listing installed packages
> which are not from the repos: `pacman -Qm`. Some AUR helpers can also
> list packages that were installed from the AUR.

Thanks. Yep, I see it now that I've sync'd.
It's not something that I'd periodically check. I'm sure it would have
jumped out at me the next time I did an update via aur helper.
Then again my question was more about getting notice (and info), than about
noticing. ;)


> If a package that used to be provided by the repos is now listed as a
> foreign package by pacman or an AUR package by an AUR helper, then this
> indicates the package was dropped. :)
> 
> It was also discussed on arch-dev-public (which anyone can subscribe to
> for read-only access, or simply look at the public archives) as part of
> our end-of-year repository cleanup.

Thanks much,
-mm-