Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 17

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/11/2016 10:40 PM, ITwrx.org wrote: > Florian, > > thanks for the reply and link. Well behaved build systems and/or the > link you sent is what i alluded to with my "cooperation from upstream" > comment. It seems to me, upstream and distros should get together and > agree on a set of standard

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/12/2016 09:29 AM, Chao Feng via arch-general wrote: > Florian, > > What is the target user of pacpak? Arch users or App developers? > > I think Flatpak and Arch rolling release model mainly fix the same issue: > Shipping cutting edge softwares quickly and stay close with upstream. > > Arc

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread Chao Feng via arch-general
On Monday 11 July 2016 18:57:38 pelzflorian wrote: > On 07/11/2016 05:01 PM, Maxwell Anselm via arch-general wrote: > > I think the tool is great Florian, but I do not think that it warrants > > official support. Consider examples like pacgem or pip2pkgbuild. These > > tools help integrate Ruby/Pyt

Re: [arch-general] Mono package updates

2016-07-11 Thread Phil Uithoven
No worries, we all have competing priorities. Ok, thanks for the info, and for looking into the update.

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 17

2016-07-11 Thread ITwrx.org
On 07/11/2016 01:00 AM, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > On 07/11/2016 01:09 AM, Information Technology Works wrote: >> > Aren't snaps, flatpak and appimage missing the boat in a concerning >> > way? Shouldn't the Gnu+Linux ecosystem be focusing on automating the >> > package building/m

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/11/2016 06:14 PM, G. Schlisio wrote: > […] > an install command would likely look like -S like in pacman? > whats the base for installation? PKGBUILDs (from AUR/ABS), official > repos, some new platform containing build recipes for pacpak? > pacpak will use the official repos (or other repos

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 07/11/2016 05:01 PM, Maxwell Anselm via arch-general wrote: > I think the tool is great Florian, but I do not think that it warrants > official support. Consider examples like pacgem or pip2pkgbuild. These > tools help integrate Ruby/Python packages (which are usually managed via a > separate pa

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread G. Schlisio
> `pacpak -Syu` would therefore always install exactly the same version of > the software as available with regular pacman. -Syu with pacman means refresh databases and install all available updates. does this mean pacpak execute this logic on all installed containers as pacman executes on all ins

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread Bennett Piater
On 07/10/2016 10:43 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > pacpak is not meant to redistribute already packaged containers from > upstream. Instead it can be used to create containers from existing Arch > packages. Basically, a copy of Arch is installed into a container > runtime. Then different

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-11 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
I think the tool is great Florian, but I do not think that it warrants official support. Consider examples like pacgem or pip2pkgbuild. These tools help integrate Ruby/Python packages (which are usually managed via a separate package manager) into pacman. They are great for users who want pacman to

Re: [arch-general] Mono package updates

2016-07-11 Thread Daniel Isenmann
Hi, no there is no issue. I just have little free time to do the update. I will try to do it this or next week. Update will come, sorry for a little delay on this topic. Cheers Daniel Phil Uithoven schrieb am Sa., 9. Juli 2016, 14:16: > > Is there an issue with updating the mono package? > > T