[aur-general] Renaming packages - scaleft client and server tools

Tony G. tonysk8 at gmx.net
Sun Jun 13 21:13:35 UTC 2021


This is exactly what I needed, thanks for the information Caleb!

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 5:49 AM Caleb Maclennan <caleb at alerque.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021-06-11 02:38, Tony G. via aur-general wrote:
> > In any case any pointer to what's the best approach is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > |     Old package      |     New package          |
> > | -------------------- | ------------------------ |
> > | scaleft-client-tools | scaleft-client-tools-bin |
> > | scaleft-server-tools | scaleft-server-tools-bin |
>
> If you've already created the new packages you are almost there. Just go
> to the old packages and submit a new request on each of them. One of the
> requests types you can create (along with delete, orphan, etc.) is a
> merge request. It will prompt you for the target you want to merge into
> (which should be the matching new package name).
>
> When the requests are approved the comments and votes should move over
> and the old name will be deleted.
>
> Caleb



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Tony G.


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