[aur-general] lib32-libx264 or lib32-lib264-stable-git?

[Νῖκος Θεοδώρου]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:58:30 +0200
Johannes Dewender <arch at JonnyJD.net> wrote:

> Am 24.06.2015 um 17:43 schrieb Bartłomiej Piotrowski:
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:00:14 +0300
> > Νῖκος Θεοδώρου <ntheo1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Then they only kept git ("master" and "stable"). The [extra]
> >> package [1] pulls from git, but it's called "libx264". Initially I
> >> called the lib32 version lib32-libx264 as well, but then gS644 in
> >> the comments suggested the stable-git suffix and I went on with it
> >> (the TUs didn't raise an objection at the merge request). Now
> >> JonnyJD raises the naming issue again. The whole discussion can be
> >> found at the package's comments [2].
> >>
> >> To be honest, I'm not sure how the package should be named, so I am
> >> asking here for a final judgement on the matter.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/x264
> >> [2] http://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-libx264-stable-git/
> > 
> > The [extra] package is always set to some particular commit from
> > stable branch.
> 
> Well, yes. The AUR package autoupdates itself automatically with every
> build. The [extra] package is manually updated for the latest commit.
> So they mostly do have the same version except for the short time when
> one package is updated and one is not.
> 
> So I could just create a lib32-libx264 and update the commit when
> [extra] updates (late update)
> and lib32-libx264-stable-git is updated automatically,
> but possibly earlier than libx264 in [extra] (early update).
> 
> I can create lib32-libx264 as a clone of lib32-libx264-stable-git and
> switch to a specific commit.
> Unless Nikos/Gordon wants to do that.
> 
> --
> JonnyJD

Bartłomiej, thank you for the clarification.

Johnny, no reason to get that complicated :-) Just make a
new lib32-libx264 and keep it; I will ask for -stable-git to be merged
into it later and we're good :-)


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