On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Eric Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Travis Willard wrote: > >> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Roman Kyrylych >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2008/5/22 Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 5/21/08, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, now that you mentioned swt, it brings up a good point. We >>>>>>>> can't do this for things like flashplugin just yet. So, should I >>>>>>>> create some sort of list of packages to NEVER generate sources for? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I think it would be a good idea to implement a blacklist. A lot of >>>>>>> factors may warrant its use (size, license, version, etc.) >>>>>> >>>>>> Hmm, I can only think about packages that we have >>>>>> a special permission to redistribute for: >>>>>> virtualbox-additions in Community and (I may be totally wrong here) >>>>>> flashplayer in Extra), don't know about others. >>>>>> (BTW both packages' "source" and binary are almost the same) >>>>>> What I don't know if redistribution from out site covers our mirrors >>>>>> too. >>>>> >>>>> Ok, so this ran for all repos. I blacklisted a few known bad ones >>>>> (bash and readline, the mirror used for the source is borked), and the >>>>> following huge list of packages failed: >>>>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/sources/failed.pkgs >>>>> >>>>> Take a second and scan these please - if you can, please correct the >>>>> source. >>>>> As Eric pointed out elsewhere, we can merge source change from trunk >>>>> with archrelease, without the need to re-release the package (this >>>>> will fix abs too) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Keep in mind there's probably dupes, as it runs for both x86_64 and >>>> i686 (and checks for an existing source for the correct version). Let >>>> me try to clean those up real quick >>>> >>> >>> Sorted. 431 packages: >>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/sources/failed.pkgs >> >> Hm - that's cool and all, but I'm finding it hard to grep. Want me to >> make a todo list? >> > > Aaron: Could you rerun your script to update the sources and the failed.pkgs > file? > > I'll try to fix them on my free time. I'll merge the change with archrelease > if Ronald didn't added a license to their trunk yet. > > It would be easier for me if I could run the script myself (where is it? do > i have enough privs to run it?) so I could keep failed.pkgs up-to-date.
It's not complete yet, which is why I run it in my homedir for now. Eventually, I will move it so the source goes to /home/ftp and it will be on a cron job. I will update this list when I get a chance, because a few have been fixed, I'm sure
