[arch-general] Aur git - missing .SRCINFO hook declined to update refs/heads/master - help?

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Tue Jun 5 07:47:18 UTC 2018


On 06/04/2018 10:41 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> 
> You'd need to resubmit a new package in order to rename.
> 
> You can use the replaces=() field to indicate that this package should
> be installed instead of the former package, but the AUR doesn't really
> implement replaces metadata and no AUR helper even tries AFAIK.
> 

Done, new package '-git' created and delete request submitted on old '_git'
package.

> Also in general, you seem to include gcc in the makedepends, and
> recently added pkgconf and make as well.
> This is incorrect. All three are in the base-devel group, which is
> *mandatory* for using makepkg, so anyone who does not have them is doing
> the wrong thing.
> 
> The AUR does *not* cater to people who try building packages without
> base-devel installed.
> 
> Which means that as makedepends they're totally unnecessary and
> therefore clutter which should be removed.
> 

Removed on all. Thank you for your help and tutelage.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 473 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/attachments/20180605/8ff30c64/attachment.asc>


More information about the arch-general mailing list