[aur-general] community back-end rewrite

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In short: the community backend should really just accept packages via
>>> upload (authenticated, or course), dump them in a common location
>>> (/home/aur/staging) and then setup a cronjob to run db-update
>>> periodically. This cronjob should also find packages in the db.tar.gz
>>> and not in CVS and run db-remove on them.
>>>
>>> If we can collaborate enough on this, we could even use the same
>>> functionality for extra and core.
>>
>> Note that the above regarding db-update requires a move to svn at the
>> same time. I do not plan to add special code to deal with CVS
>>
> Regarding db-remove: I think is is an _absolute_ requirement that
> packages be easily moved back to unsupported. Currently the only way
> is to delete it entirely and re-upload as a new package (losing all
> related metadata). It's really horrible, and I think contributes to
> the glut of useless stuff in community at the moment.

Sure, but that'd be more up to the AUR front-end that controls
unsupported. It'd just have to copy the entries from CVS and put them
in the unsupported dir. Should be simple. As for removing them,
perhaps the front-end could even remove them from CVS, but that seems
a little gross.