[pacman-dev] pacman-dev Digest, Vol 18, Issue 26

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 09:47:49 EST 2007 

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On 3/8/07, Mark MacNeill <mkmacneill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> stop sending me these emails
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> >Subject: pacman-dev Digest, Vol 18, Issue 26
> >Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:09:54 -0500
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> >Today's Topics:
> >
> >    1. Re: pacman should ask the user on multipile choices
> >       (Aaron Griffin)
> >    2. Re: pacman should ask the user on multipile choices
> >       (Roman Kyrylych)
> >    3. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Alexander Fehr)
> >    4. Thank you for new pacman. (Dawid Ci??arkiewicz)
> >    5. Re: alpm_list: missing quick access to last element
> >       (J?rgen H?tzel)
> >    6. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Pierre Schmitz)
> >    7. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Alexander Fehr)
> >    8. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Aaron Griffin)
> >    9. CVS update of pacman-lib/src/pacman (pacman.c) (Aaron Griffin)
> >   10. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Aaron Griffin)
> >   11. Re: The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1 (Travis Willard)
> >   12. CVS update of pacman-lib/src/pacman (deptest.c) (Dan McGee)
> >   13. 20070308 Pacman Italian patch (Giovanni Scafora)
> >
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:33:25 -0600
> >From: "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] pacman should ask the user on multipile
> >       choices
> >To: "Discussion list for pacman development"
> >       <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID:
> >       <d64a48980703071133h4e11e067pa2d4c3d80afef2e9 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> >
> >On 3/7/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the
> >ml
> > > first.
> > >
> > > Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more
> >than
> > > one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman
> >just
> > > installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for
> >most
> > > cases.
> >
> >Right, this is the current way pacman2 does it.  It's harder to do and
> >I think it's either in a TODO in the code, or on my TODO.aaron list.
> >Not sure, but it's planned.
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:45:48 +0200
> >From: "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] pacman should ask the user on multipile
> >       choices
> >To: "Discussion list for pacman development"
> >       <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID:
> >       <577f15290703071145r799e29fsd47994b8bf9ba16d at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-5; format=flowed
> >
> >2007/3/7, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > On 3/7/07, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to
> >the ml
> > > > first.
> > > >
> > > > Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by
> >more than
> > > > one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment
> >pacman just
> > > > installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for
> >most
> > > > cases.
> > >
> > > Right, this is the current way pacman2 does it.  It's harder to do and
> > > I think it's either in a TODO in the code, or on my TODO.aaron list.
> > > Not sure, but it's planned.
> >
> >Yep, I surely remember the discussion about this somewhere but neither
> >Flyspray nor Gmail are able to find it... doh...
> >
> >I guess with --noconfirm we'll get old behavour anyway. We might add
> >some option for pacman.conf though, like "Alias web-server=lighttpd"
> >but it will be useful only for first install, so I dunno if it worth
> >it..
> >
> >--
> >Roman Kyrylych (????? ???????)
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 3
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:02:39 +0100
> >From: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <20070307210239.f11ee28e.pizzapunk at gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:20:20 -0500
> >"Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Anyone here have anything to say about pacman3? Maybe even a "great
> > > job guys, I've had no problems at all?" Even you list-lurkers out
> > > there, feel free to speak up. We'd really like to get all the input we
> > > can so we are not scared as hell when we push it to testing and
> > > current soon after.
> >
> >It's working fine here. Two small things I have noticed:
> >
> >$ pacman -V
> >...
> >Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet <jvinet at zeroflux.org>
> >...
> >-> 2006 should be changed to 2007
> >
> >$ pacman -h
> >...
> >pacman {-R --remove}  [options] <package>
> >pacman {-S --sync}    [options] [package]
> >...
> >-> inconsistent use of brackets around package
> >
> >
> >Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 4
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:59:13 +0000
> >From: Dawid Ci??arkiewicz <dawid.ciezarkiewicz at asn.pl>
> >Subject: [pacman-dev] Thank you for new pacman.
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <200703072059.14230.dawid.ciezarkiewicz at asn.pl>
> >Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >I've just subscribed so forgive me that I'm opening new thread.
> >
> >New pacman is very fast and I haven't found single issue using it (and I'm
> >pretty sure it will stay like this).
> >
> >Please keep up your great work. Thank you. :)
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 5
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:05:56 +0100
> >From: J?rgen H?tzel <juergen at hoetzel.info>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] alpm_list: missing quick access to last
> >       element
> >To: Discussion list for pacman development <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID: <20070307200555.GA14681 at h5331.serverkompetenz.net>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:14:27PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > On 3/5/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > whereas a typical implementation of the same thing
> > > > (like ours) requires two.
> > >
> > > requires THREE*
> >
> >Well, this is because the list_header is embedded in the data structures.
> >This requires us to change every pacman struct to include the list_header
> >(if it
> >used by the list functions). List callback function like alpm_list_fn_cmp
> >will still require *void casting.
> >
> >There are other areas where libpacman is quite inefficient (in respect of
> >memory usage). Consider the fixed size preallocated strings in pmpkg_t
> >(sizeof(pmpkg_t) == 1948). Memory footprint of pacman reading
> >current/extra/community requires currently 10M (desc files on disc allocate
> >0.8M).
> >
> >J?rgen
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 6
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:07:12 +0100
> >From: Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <200703072107.12557.pierre at archlinux.de>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> >Am Mittwoch, 7. M?rz 2007 21:02:39 schrieb Alexander Fehr:
> > > $ pacman -h
> > > ...
> > > pacman {-R --remove} ?[options] <package>
> > > pacman {-S --sync} ? ?[options] [package]
> > > ...
> > > -> inconsistent use of brackets around package
> >
> >No, because [..] indicates that the parameter is optional.
> >
> >--
> >http://www.archlinux.de
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 7
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:17:19 +0100
> >From: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <20070307211719.a591ac13.pizzapunk at gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:07:12 +0100
> >Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 7. M?rz 2007 21:02:39 schrieb Alexander Fehr:
> > > > $ pacman -h
> > > > ...
> > > > pacman {-R --remove} ?[options] <package>
> > > > pacman {-S --sync} ? ?[options] [package]
> > > > ...
> > > > -> inconsistent use of brackets around package
> > >
> > > No, because [..] indicates that the parameter is optional.
> >
> >You are right. Next time I should thing more about it.
> >
> >
> >Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 8
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:28:17 -0600
> >From: "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: "Discussion list for pacman development"
> >       <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID:
> >       <d64a48980703071228l7adeedb9y2555231083933ca0 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> >
> >On 3/6/07, Travis Willard <travisw at wmpub.ca> wrote:
> > > $ makepkg -c
> > > ==> Entering fakeroot environment
> > > ==> Making package: audacious-plugins 1.3.0-1 (Tue Mar  6 21:52:22 EST
> > > 2007) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
> > >
> > > ==> Missing Dependencies:
> > >    -> audacious-player>=1.3.0
> > >    -> libmpcdec>=1.2.5
> > > ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
> > > ==> ERROR: could not resolve all dependencies.
> > > -[travis at Cerebral]-[~/archlinux/extra/multimedia/audacious-plugins]-
> > > 09:52pm $ pacman -Q audacious-player
> > > audacious-player 1.3.0-1
> > > -[travis at Cerebral]-[~/archlinux/extra/multimedia/audacious-plugins]-
> > > 09:52pm $ pacman -Q libmpcdec
> > > libmpcdec 1.2.5-1
> > > -[travis at Cerebral]-[~/archlinux/extra/multimedia/audacious-plugins]-
> > > 09:52pm $ pacman -Q pacman
> > > pacman 3.0.0-1
> > >
> > > I do indeed have the deps, as you can see.
> >
> >This should be fixed in CVS.  The deptesting wasn't splitting the
> >comparators out, so "foo>=1.2" was taken literally.  That is, you
> >don't have a package named "foo>=1.2" installed. 8)
> >Expect this fixed when the next push comes around.
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 9
> >Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:29:29 -0500
> >From: Aaron Griffin <aaron at archlinux.org>
> >Subject: [pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib/src/pacman (pacman.c)
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <E1HP2lN-0004sP-2h at archlinux.org>
> >
> >     Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 @ 15:29:29
> >   Author: aaron
> >     Path: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib/src/pacman
> >
> >Modified: pacman.c (1.104 -> 1.105)
> >
> >* Updated -V output to include the 2007 copyright date.
> >
> >
> >----------+
> >  pacman.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >
> >Index: pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c
> >diff -u pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c:1.104
> >pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c:1.105
> >--- pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c:1.104       Mon Mar  5 17:13:35 2007
> >+++ pacman-lib/src/pacman/pacman.c     Wed Mar  7 15:29:28 2007
> >@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
> >  {
> >       printf("\n");
> >       printf(" .--.                  Pacman v%s - libalpm v%s\n",
> >PACKAGE_VERSION, LIB_VERSION);
> >-      printf("/ _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
> ><jvinet at zeroflux.org>\n");
> >+      printf("/ _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Judd Vinet
> ><jvinet at zeroflux.org>\n");
> >       printf("\\  '-. '-'  '-'  '-'\n");
> >       printf(" '--'                  \n");
> >       printf(_("                       This program may be freely
> >redistributed under\n"));
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 10
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:33:18 -0600
> >From: "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: "Discussion list for pacman development"
> >       <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID:
> >       <d64a48980703071233p559953ffybd60ad35d72eae07 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> >
> >On 3/7/07, Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's working fine here. Two small things I have noticed:
> > >
> > > $ pacman -V
> > > ...
> > > Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet <jvinet at zeroflux.org>
> > > ...
> > > -> 2006 should be changed to 2007
> >
> >Fixed in CVS, thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 11
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:48:37 -0500
> >From: Travis Willard <travisw at wmpub.ca>
> >Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] The real deal - pacman 3.0.0 RC1
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <20070307154837.66276eb3 at localhost.localdomain>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:56:24 +0200
> >"Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > P.S.: What about that dependency bug in makepkg reported by Travis?
> >
> >Seems to be fixed in CVS.  ;)
> >
> >--
> >Travis
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> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 12
> >Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:47:52 -0500
> >From: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> >Subject: [pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib/src/pacman (deptest.c)
> >To: pacman-dev at archlinux.org
> >Message-ID: <E1HP3zE-0001Qr-IS at archlinux.org>
> >
> >     Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 @ 16:47:52
> >   Author: dan
> >     Path: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib/src/pacman
> >
> >Modified: deptest.c (1.17 -> 1.18)
> >
> >* Mark a function as static that is only used in deptest.c.
> >
> >
> >-----------+
> >  deptest.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >
> >Index: pacman-lib/src/pacman/deptest.c
> >diff -u pacman-lib/src/pacman/deptest.c:1.17
> >pacman-lib/src/pacman/deptest.c:1.18
> >--- pacman-lib/src/pacman/deptest.c:1.17       Wed Mar  7 02:45:31 2007
> >+++ pacman-lib/src/pacman/deptest.c    Wed Mar  7 16:47:52 2007
> >@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
> >
> >  extern config_t *config;
> >
> >-int chk_package(const char *pkgname, pmdepend_t *dep)
> >+static int chk_package(const char *pkgname, pmdepend_t *dep)
> >  {
> >       pmpkg_t *pkg;
> >       pkg = alpm_db_get_pkg(alpm_option_get_localdb(), pkgname);
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 13
> >Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 02:09:55 +0100
> >From: "Giovanni Scafora" <linuxmania at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [pacman-dev] 20070308 Pacman Italian patch
> >To: "Discussion list for pacman development"
> >       <pacman-dev at archlinux.org>
> >Message-ID:
> >       <c357d3ef0703071709o5ac0ce94x7329346b5b181cb7 at mail.gmail.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> >Hi Dan,
> >
> >I apologize but there is a new patch with some improvements to the
> >italian translation of pacman.
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Giovanni Scafora
> >Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull)
> >http://www.archlinux.org
> >linuxmania at gmail.com
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