[pacman-dev] pacman-contrib package

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/2/21, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  With the release of pacman 3.1.2 I was reminded to get around to putting
>  a pacman-contrib package into AUR/community like I said I would [1].  I
>  have categorized the files in the contrib directory below.
>
>  Utilities:
>   pacdiff
>   pacsearch
>   re-pacman (needs some updates? [2])
>   wget-xdelta.sh
>
>  vim:
>   PKGBUILD.vim
>   vimproject (needs updated - developer use only)
>
>  Included in pacman package:
>   bash_completion
>   zsh_completion
>
>  Old:
>   gensync
>   updatesync
>
>  I think the pacman-contib package should only include pacdiff,
>  pacserach, re-pacman, PKGBUILD.vim.  I did a very quick review of the
>  files to check if they still work with the current pacman. As far as I
>  can tell pacdiff and pacsearch don't need updated.   I will look into
>  updating re-pacman as I don't see any commits to this file since [2]. No
>  idea about the status with PKGBUILD.vim - I don't use vim for PKGBUILDs
>  so can someone else comment here.
>
>  Any comments on the status of these scripts or list of scripts to be
>  included?
>

There is a script for coloured pacman output somewhere on BBS.
You can also include one of repo/cache cleanup scripts (based on
filename matches) that available on ML and BBS. (and adding to git
would be nice)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)