[pacman-dev] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.2.0

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Jul 31 08:11:47 EDT 2008


Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Eric Belanger
>> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Pacman 3.2.0 is in testing for i686. Please signoff. Changes outlined
>>>> here: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=NEWS
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> When building mythbrowser, I noticed that makepkg now fails when there is an
>>> '?' in the sources, e.g.
>>> source=("http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=136&foo=/mythplugins-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
>>>
>>> Removing the double quotes and  escaping the characters doesn't work.
>>>
>>> The error message:
>>>
>>> ==> ERROR: There is no agent set up to handle  URLs. Check
>>> /etc/makepkg.conf.
>>>    Aborting...
>>>
>>> Not a showstopper as the source can be downloaded maunally in the build dir.
>>> I'll try to look into it further tomorrow.
>>>       
>> We have a regression here, and it is actually bigger than it looks at
>> first sight. Can you file a bug report for this?
>>
>> Tracing the code shows that %o and %u are never even used right now,
>> as they don't make it all the way through to the download stage.
>>     
>
> Hmm... I didn't look at that code for a long time, dunno why this
> might happen. :-(
>
>
>   

My hacked makepkg shows:









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