[aur-general] Deletion request

[Cédric Girard]

Le 19 déc. 2010 17:59, "Loui Chang" <louipc.ist at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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.
>
As far as I can remember, the packager never put the zip in to this package,
it would have been against the license terms of this sdk.