[aur-general] AUR cleanup

[gadget3000]

On 7 November 2011 19:40, Matej Ľach <matej.lach at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/11/11 19:30, 郑文辉 wrote:
>
>> 在 2011-11-8 上午3:09，"Stefan Wilkens"<stefanwilkens at gmail.**com<stefanwilkens at gmail.com>
>> >写道：
>>
>>  2011/11/7 Nicola Bignami<nicola at kernel-panic.**dnsdojo.net<nicola at kernel-panic.dnsdojo.net>
>>> >:
>>>
>>>> I see that there are more than 6700 orphan packages. Of those, more than
>>>> 2400 are also flagged out of date (some packages have not been updated
>>>>
>>> since
>>>
>>>> 2007).
>>>> Many packages are only waiting for a new maintainer but I think that
>>>> many
>>>> are only waiting to be scrapped as they're already been replaced by some
>>>> other package in the AUR or in the community repository (or just become
>>>> obsolete).
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if the time has come to look into them to find out what
>>>>
>>> worth
>>>
>>>> to keep and what have to be removed and thus do some cleanup.
>>>>
>>>> If can be useful, I can start working on it.
>>>>
>>>>  Keeping the user repository clean and up-to-date sounds very KISS and
>>> Arch to me, but some criteria should be stated. Many packages that
>>> depend on python v2, for instance, are simply broken because they were
>>> not properly updated to reflect repository changes [1]. The goal with
>>> these packages should likely be to adapt the build, not consider them
>>> broken.
>>>
>>> Perhaps create a page on the wiki so that this work can be shared with
>>> others in the community. Such a page might also allow us to have a
>>> nice final list that can be fed to the nearest TU in one go, rather
>>> than a flood of deletion requests.
>>>
>>> Should you initiate this, I would surely help out. Who knows what fun
>>> software one might run into :)
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/**python-is-now-python-3/<http://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/>
>>>
>>
>> Maybe we should have some category system to help manage the PKGBUILDs in
>> AUR.We can tag them by "package whith third-party patch" , "CVS package"
>> ,"SVN package","GIT package","nightly builds","Beta version","need
>> review","need to be dropped" and so on.Let the community vote for each tag
>> to produce a squence of some tag ie. "need to be dropped" to let the TUs
>> working on.
>>
> (As a user) - I think this is a great idea.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Matej Ľach
>
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>
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>
>
aurdupes is good place to start because it lists packages that already
exist in repos, among other things.

During my AUR cleaning over summer I made a script to help me find packages
that could be deleted. It's very buggy and incomplete but I've attached it
for you or anyone else to use or build upon.

Gadget3000
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