[aur-general] aurweb 4.0.0 released

[Doug Newgard]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 15:14:14 +0200
Jakub Klinkovský <j.l.k at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 08.08.15 at 13:42, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We are pleased to announce that aurweb 4.0.0 has been released. The
> > official aurweb setup [1] has already been updated.
> > 
> > The most exciting change in this release is that Git repositories are
> > now used for AUR packages. This new feature comes along with some other
> > nice additions, such as an SSH interface for registered AUR users.
> > 
> > For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As
> > usual, bugs should be reported to the aurweb bug tracker [3].
> > 
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/
> > [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/log/?id=v4.0.0
> > [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2
> 
> As far as I remember, it was discussed that the old packages from AUR3 will
> still be available in an archive. Is it the aur-mirror.git [4] or something
> else? We were thinking to replace the currently broken links to AUR packages on
> the wiki with links to the archive to divide the heap of broken links into
> "obsolete" and "obsolete, but still findable" parts. For this to work, we need a
> fixed URL with variable part corresponding to the package name. And for easy
> maintenance with a bot, we would need a list of packages in the archive for fast
> searching, e.g. something like [5]. Is this possible or do you have some other
> recommendations?
> 
> [4] http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/
> [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz
> 

Lukas is on vacation. Give him a chance to get back and take a look at things.