[aur-general] package blacklist?

Antonio Rojas nqn1976list at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 13:48:05 EDT 2014


Mike Hobbs wrote:

> On 06/30/2014 12:40 PM, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
>> On 30/06, Mike Hobbs wrote:
>>> Yeah, but AFAIK that's necessary, though, in order to replace
>>> xorg-server with a patched version. At least that's the convention
>>> that seen elsewhere with other AUR packages that contain bug fixes.
>>>
>>
>> No, the pkgbase should be something else and your package should
>> conflict/replace the repo one.
>>
> 
> Maybe I misunderstood then. I assumed that everything else that depends
> on xorg-server being present would then break. I'll give it a try...
> 
> Thanks,
> - Mike

You need to add provides= lines to all packages. The pkgbase field has 
nothing to do with replacing official packages.



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