[aur-dev] New Release

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 10:11:00 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a bug on the current AUR because the new chmodding stuff does
> no error checks so if a PKGBUILD is invalid in any way the AUR will
> start chmodding all package dirs hosted. PHP kills the script before
> it's done but it can't be good for the server and there is no feedback
> on what happened for the user.
>
> I think we're gonna have to do another release soon. Thoughts?

Oops, is this my patch? :)

2 things:
* Frequent releases aren't a bad thing.
* Do we even need this chmod() stuff? We seemed to do fine for a few
weeks without anything being rejiggered, so maybe we don't need it at
all?

-Dan


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