[aur-general] bfinch - Was: [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

w9ya w9ya at qrparci.net
Fri Dec 19 04:11:34 EST 2008


It creates syncing issues when things are upgraded. And Archlinux
unfortunately has never dealt with the plagiarism issues when someone leaves
let alone these syncing issues as a result.

Bob Finch


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:02 AM, w9ya <w9ya at qrparci.net> wrote:
> > Aaron... you said you wanted people to host their own binary repos for
> > little used packages in the very first emails about this subject several
> > weeks ago. You have nothing since then to refute this.
> >
> > I am merely agreeing and was preparing to do exactly that. Daenyth helped
> me
> > to do this after a TU irc channel discussion about your wishes in this
> area.
> > People remembered them and everyone agreed that it was my decision to
> remove
> > something as EVERY TU currently has that right and we have never voted
> > otherwise.
> >
> > Also logically having PKGBUILDs in two places or even binaries in two
> places
> > makes no sense for either Arch or myself because of support any "syncing"
> > issues with pacman and in consideration of other long standing issues
> with
> > plagarism.
> >
>
> If the PKGBUILDs are on AUR and the binaries in your repos, then
> everything is is one place.
> What is wrong with that?
>
> That way, all users are still free to install packages in the traditional
> ways :
> If the package is in an official repo (core, extra, community), then
> he can install a binary directly
> If the package is not in any official repo, then it should be in
> AUR/unsupported and the user can retrieve the PKGBUILD from AUR and
> build it.
>
> On top of that, packages in AUR/unsupported could also exist in
> unofficial binary repos, for convenience to the users who trust these
> repos.
>
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