[aur-general] AUR 3.0.0 released

[Jerome Leclanche]

That's very unfortunate and quite a bit counter-intuitive. Is this final?
J. Leclanche


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Lukas Fleischer
<archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 at 13:36:29, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to upload a split package of sddm -qt5-git and -git
>> (attached), but when I upload it, it says: "You are not allowed to
>> overwrite the sddm-qt5-git package.". I'm a maintainer of both of
>> course.
>> Is this a bug? If not, what's the correct course of action?
>> [...]
>
> No, this isn't a bug. You cannot overwrite a package from a different
> package base. What you can do is:
>
> 1. Rename the sddm-qt5-git package without changing its package base:
>
>     pkgbase=sddm-qt5-git
>     pkgname=sddm-qt5-git-old
>
>    This might also require some "$pkgname" references to be replaced by
>    "$pkgbase" in order to successfully build a new package.
>
> 2. Submit the updated package to the AUR. This will result in the
>    package name changing from sddm-qt5-git to sddm-qt5-git-old.
>
> 3. Upload the new split package.
>
> 4. Request the old (renamed) package (sddm-qt5-git-old) to be merged
>    into the new one.
>
> Please read both [1] and [2] for details.
>
> Regards,
> Lukas
>
> [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-May/028594.html
> [2] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-June/028631.html