[aur-general] AUR/[extra]/[community] duplicates

[Nathan O]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Stefan Husmann
<stefan-husmann at t-online.de>wrote:

> Am 16.09.2010 16:30, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wrote a small script to check for duplicate package names in the
> > AUR and the official repos and created a list of duplicates. For each of
> > the packages I quickly checked AUR and [extra]/[community] package
> > versions, AUR comments and whether there seem to be some additional
> > patches in the AUR version. It might be better to double check tho...
> >
> > The following packages already are in [extra] and AUR versions seem to
> > be equivalent or outdated:
> >
> > - gcin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39653
> > - gthumb: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27129
> > - libwpg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25652
> > - perl-class-factory-util:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25955
> > - perl-class-inspector: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10540
> > - perl-datetime-format-builder:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25956
> > - perl-datetime-format-strptime:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9334
> > - perl-image-size: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3286
> > - perl-time-hires: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35514
> > - perl-xml-parser: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40119
> > - v4l-utils: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38218
> > - xpyb: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19975
> >
> > Following packages already are in [community] and AUR versions seem to
> > be equivalent or outdated:
> >
> > - cadaver: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8635
> > - cksfv: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8688
> > - evas-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19315
> > - gpsbabel: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37028
> > - kim4: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38648
> > - ktoblzcheck: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9104
> > - lwp: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8703
> > - perl-parse-recdescent: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36080
> > - pulseaudio-mixer-applet:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24016
> > - qoauth: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28485
> > - remmina: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38933
> > - springlobby: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39670
> > - urbanterror-data: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21493
> > - winegame: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37828
> > - winestuff: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37829
> > - wmctrl: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1294
> > - lib32-alsa-oss: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12815
> > - lib32-ati-dri: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29742
> > - lib32-intel-dri: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24770
> > - lib32-libmng: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20890
> > - lib32-libstdc++5: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11191
> >
> > Quite a few packages that are already in the official repos are
> > maintained by the Arch Haskell team in the AUR. I'm not sure what to do
> > with them. These packages include:
> >
> > - darcs: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39679
> > - happy: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26280
> > - gtk2hs-buildtools: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37478
> > - haskell-cgi, haskell-dataenc, haskell-deepseq,
> >   haskell-extensible-exceptions, haskell-hashed-storage,
> >   haskell-haskeline, haskell-hunit, haskell-mmap, haskell-quickcheck,
> >   haskell-regex-base, haskell-regex-compat, haskell-regex-posix,
> >   haskell-stm, haskell-terminfo
> >
> > Following packages should probably stay in the AUR although they're
> > duplicates, check AUR comments:
> >
> > - awesome: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13038
> > - q4wine: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36728
> > - sk1: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16559
> > - sk1libs: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35066
> >
> > gadmin-samba (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40599) seems to
> > be newer than the package in [community] but the project homepage says
> > the [community] package is still up-to-date. Maybe the AUR version is an
> > unstable release?
> >
> > sleuthkit (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2012) and the
> > sleuthkit package in [community] seem to have some differences in the
> > PKGBUILD. Not sure what to do, check AUR comments.
> >
> > So far... Hope that helps :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lukas
> >
> Hello,
>
> thank you for your very long list. Can you provide your script somewhere,
> maybe in AUR?
>
> I removed all of the mentioned PKGBUILDS. Regardless if they are written
> differently or are even better than the ones in the repos: The AUR is not
> the place for packages equally named with packages in the repos.
>
> Regards Stefan
>
Sorry for the double post, though I did have the latest samba package, since
now it is deleted and the one in AUR was the latest stable, and not a
unstable version