[aur-general] PKGBUILDS removal request and question

Andrea Scarpino andrea at archlinux.org
Mon Apr 27 04:05:48 EDT 2009


On 27/04/2009, Borislav Gerassimov <bobi at omegatim.com> wrote:
> I've recently (friday) adopted the qutim-related orphans, well almost all of
> the qutim PKGBUILDS. There are some of theme that are in fact duplicates,
> created because the originals were not updated. I've updated the duplicates,
> so I can suggest the following to be removed:
>
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24518 qutim-protocol-icq-svn
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24519 qutim-protocol-irc-svn
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24520 qutim-protocol-jabber-svn
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24521 qutim-protocol-mrim-svn
>
> I've added provides=(..) and replaces=(..) lines in the corresponding qutim-
> plugin-*-svn PKGBUILDS. Is this enough?
>
> Also I've decided to update the qutim-svn PKGBUILD and remove the others,
> which are:
>
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22515 qutim-core-svn
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21918 qutim-svn-dev
>
> There are conflicts=(..) and provides=(..) lines in the qutim-svn PKGBUILD
> but
> I'm not sure if replaces=(..) is needed there.
yes you could use replaces()

> The goal is to have qutim-svn and qutim-plugin-*-svn PKGBUILDs only.
>
> Thanks at advance for your replies and actions. If something is wrong with
> all
> this, please share your opinions.

good job. I removed those packages from AUR

-- 
Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


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