[aur-general] TU application for Caleb, aka alerque

[Morten Linderud]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:23:56PM +0300, Caleb Maclennan via aur-general wrote:
> On 2021-06-15 04:19, George Rawlinson via aur-general wrote:
> > What's your package maintenance/procedure like? I'm always interested in
> > seeing how people approach this so I can steal ^W borrow ideas.
> 
> I use `aurpublish` to manage AUR repos, plus a couple hand rolled scripts.
> One signs and publishes packages I built to my own package repository, the
> other steps me through the update/build process. The process starts by
> opening my editor (nvim of course) where I bump the version and clean up
> anything else that catches my eye. Then it updates checksums and attempts to
> build the package (both on the host system and in a chroot). If that works
> it installs it (I only build from systems where I actually *use* packages,
> so this works. Once installed I do a quick check to make sure nothing broke.
> For apps this usually means just running them and making sure they don't
> segfault or complain about deps. For system services I restart the service
> and make sure it still functions. If that's good then the result gets
> committed (aurpublish taking care of updating the .SRCINFO) and I push to
> the AUR repo plus my aurpublish repo and run the other script to publish the
> package and re-sign my repo.

How do you stay on top of package updates? Do you have any hand rolled scripts
to check for updates or do you use existing tooling?


> P.S. Was it you that approved the mass deletion of anything Google Play
> Music related from the AUR‌ recently without checking which projects actually
> had been updated to work with YouTube Music even if they still have GPM in
> their name or description?

Ooooohh, backfire 😃!

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Morten Linderud
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