[aur-general] Deletion request

[Seblu]

2010/12/19 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
Hum this last words let my question remains.

Regards,
-- 
Sébastien Luttringer
www.seblu.net