[aur-general] AUR 3.0.0-rc1 released

[Yichao Yu]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:
>> On 2014-04-30 17:20, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
>> >A first release candidate of the AUR 3.0.0 has been released! You can
>> >give it a try at [1]. Note that due to internal changes, the setup at
>> >aur-dev.archlinux.org uses a different database than aur.archlinux.org.
>> >You should be able login using your regular AUR account, though.
>> >
>> >The most important changes are:
>> >
>> >* Full split package support.
>> >* Support for {make,check,opt}depends, conflicts, provides, ...
>> >* Full support for the new fields in the RPC interface.
>> >* Metadata support. Use mkaurball instead of `makepkg --source` to
>> >  generate source tarballs for the AUR`. You can get it from [2] -- it
>> >  will eventually be moved to [community].
>> >
>> >Note that in order to obtain the new fields, you need to request
>> >the new
>> >version of the RPC API explicitly, like this:
>> >
>> >    https://aur-dev.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=pass&v=2
>> >
>> >Otherwise, the replies default to the old format for compatibility
>> >reasons.
>> >
>> >Please report any bugs to the AUR bug tracker [3].
>> >
>> >[1] https://aur-dev.archlinux.org/
>> >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/
>> >[3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2
>>
>> It appears that pkgbase is now the important part of a PKGBUILD,
>
> But note that it doesn't need to be included. Same as makepkg, it
> defaults to pkgname[0] if it isn't defined.
>
>> that's what people would be requesting deletion or merging on? Makes
>> merges a bit tough, since you can't upload a PKGBUILD with a
>> different pkgbase but an overlapping pkgname.
>
> You'd be referring to the package by its pkgbase, since that's the
> unifying factor. If 'foo' is split into 'python-foo' and 'python2-foo',
> you wouldn't ask to merge/delete 'python-foo' or 'python2-foo'. This
> doesn't make sense -- you'd just upload a new source tarball with the
> modification.
>
> I don't understand your concern over overlapping pkgnames. If you want
> to take ownership of existing packages, you should be asking for the
> package to be disowned, not merged, same as today.

I'm not sure if this is the original concern but one of my concern
that might be related is that for example there are two packages
python-foo and python2-foo which provide the python3 and python2
versions respectively. What should I do if I want to merge the two
packages into a split package that provide both. Asking for merge and
update the package later? AUR won't let me to upload a new version of
python-foo that provide python2-foo otherwise.

Cheers.

Yichao Yu