[pacman-dev] Summary of pacman development

[Andrew Fyfe]

Dan McGee wrote:
> * Pacman and directory symlinks:
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7484
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-June/008638.html
> This is quite the fun little bug. A lot of it deals with our
> transition both to libarchive, and then to the 2.X branch of
> libarchive. Andrew has a proposed patch for this problem
http://neptune-one.homeip.net/git?p=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=2d5a60f480596c2f82f4d5b099fc6745c3cf6453

This is a TEMPORARY fix. From Dan and Xavier's comments in the other 
thread and my own browsing through the source, ALL backup and conflict 
checks should be handled BEFORE anything is touched on the users system. 
At the moment it's very easy to break a users system because we are 
doing checks as we remove/add files to the system without a way to roll 
back the changes if something goes wrong.

> * Remove CHOST from makepkg.conf? (
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-July/008662.html)
It's seems it's needed by the x86_64 guys, patch to export CHOST
http://neptune-one.homeip.net/git?p=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=4259f67bf889f83da5b8f9d1d631731f5deabe38

> * FS 7137/7133- looks like DB issues
These are both fixed now I think.

> * FS 7271- makepkg caching netfiles- should be a super quick fix for
> someone like Andrew (hint, hint) :) Just look at Roman's last comment
:D
http://neptune-one.homeip.net/git?p=pacman;a=commitdiff;h=1ecf75677e9cafa04e2cda1c3eaecb2f8b647315

> * Asciidoc- this is coming along great, Andrew and I have a separate
> branch for now we are maintaining it in. This should make writing man
> pages much more pain-free. A few formatting issues probably need
> working out, but this will also allow us to make much prettier online
> HTML-formatted documentation.
I'll try and get this fixed up this week.

Andrew