[aur-dev] [PATCH v3] UPGRADING: Add note on backward compatible package URLs

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Lukas Fleischer
<archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>
> ---
> * Rules rewritten using a single regular expression.
> * Added an equivalent lighttpd rewrite rule.
>
>  UPGRADING |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING
> index 331870e..aff780f 100644
> --- a/UPGRADING
> +++ b/UPGRADING
> @@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ ALTER TABLE PackageDepends ADD INDEX (DepName);
>  6. Run the upload directory transform script ("scripts/uploadbuckets.sh") and
>  rotate the converted directory structure into place.
>
> +7. In order to to provide backward compatible package URLs, enable mod_rewrite
> +and add the following to your Apache configuration (inside the "VirtualHost"
> +container or optionally create a ".htaccess" file in the upload directory):
> +
> +----
> +RewriteEngine on
> +RewriteRule ^/packages/([^/]{1,2})([^/]*/(PKGBUILD|.*\.tar\.gz))$ /packages/$1/$1$2
> +----
> +
> +The following equivalent rule can be used for lighttpd setups:
> +
> +----
> +url.rewrite-once = ( "^/packages/([^/]{1,2})([^/]*/(PKGBUILD|.*\.tar\.gz))$" => "/packages/$1/$1$2" )
> +----

I'm still -1 on this. I don't think we need to assume the contents of
these directories in a rewrite rule, nor do I think it makes the rules
any clearer. Can we please just use rules that don't make assumptions?

Does this even let me go to http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gephi/
correctly? I don't think it does.

-Dan