[aur-general] Deletion request

[Loui Chang]

On Sun 19 Dec 2010 17:15 +0100, Seblu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:58 PM, cantabile <cantabile.desu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le 19/12/2010 17:55, Seblu a écrit :
> >>
> >> 2010/12/13 Cédric Girard<girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Stefan
> >>> Husmann<stefan-husmann at t-online.de
> >>> There is a similar case with packages like steinberg-vst [1]. The package
> >>> just assumes the source are already downloaded in the build directory as
> >>> explained in comment.
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16748
> >>>
> >> ok.
> >>
> >> do you have a trick to tell to "makepkg --source" to not include in
> >> src package the file which should be download manually?
> >> or you remove it from the tarball manually before uploading to AUR?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >
> > source=('http://dummy.address.com/file-already-downloaded.ext')
> > That should work ^
> Yes but he does not like it.
> And this is not a pretty way, because makepkg download will just fail
> rather than showing a message to ask a manual download.
> So i think a better way is to not mark the file in source var, and
> doing checking by hand and ask to download if not present.
> 
> But in this PKGBUILD, he uses source var to make checking. And on AUR
> zip file is not uploaded. So i'm wondering if they are an option or he
> deleting file manually.
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steinberg-vst/steinberg-vst/PKGBUILD
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steinberg-vst/steinberg-vst/vst_sdk2_3.zip

Well if the zip archive exists in the package tarball, then I removed it
during a recent cleanup.