[aur-requests] [PRQ#7438] Request Rejected

[Bruno Pagani]

Le 07/02/2017 à 19:22, Bruno Pagani a écrit :

> Le 07/02/2017 à 18:01, John D Jones III a écrit :
>
>> I'm here, I'll take a good at the firefox-nightly-fr pkgbuild and work
>> to make the necessary adjustments. I've never particularly cared for
>> how it just skips the sha512 sum on the tarball, but I also wasn't
>> thrilled updating the sha512 every 1-180 minutes so I went with what
>> was available to me at the time.
>>
>> I too agree that auto-updating a PKGBUILD without some form of vetting
>> is a bad idea. Given the number of pkgs I maintain, I'd love to let
>> things update automatically, but my experience in these past several
>> years suggests that there is always something that fails in the
>> process and that nothing but good old fashioned vim/diff can properly
>> ensure a working and clean pkgbuild.
> My point was more about the fact that updating VCS-like PKGBUILD just
> for the sake of updating them has no purpose (whether it’s auto or not
> doesn’t matter here). The only case where a VCS-like PKGBUILD needs to
> be updated is when there is a change in build process or dependencies.
> It’s even more true in the case of Firefox channels, since you can quite
> reliably when the next build is going to be, so they are plenty of way
> to handle this on the user-end side.

For further notice, this very discussion arose today on
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-nightly/, and a quite elegant
solution was proposed: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/changeling/

Bruno

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