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

[Nathan O]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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 be equivalent or outdated: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 be equivalent or outdated: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
>
Also the author updates his freshmeat.net account first
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gadmin-samba I worked with him mostly with
gadmin-samba, because of some compile issues I was having, and I came up
with a patch for it to install correctly and so version 3.1 contains the
changes that I added with my patch to the Makefile.