[aur-general] Deletion request

[Cédric Girard]

Le 19 déc. 2010 19:40, "Seblu" <seblu at seblu.net> a écrit :
>
> 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
Try to ask the packager directly. I don't know how he is dealing with this
exactly and cannot do any test right now.