Re: [aur-general] Watch list

2009-04-12 Thread Xyne
Ashok Gautham wrote: > Can AUR have something like a watch list. It would be useful. > > I find that at times I forget that I flagged a package out of date. After a > long time, I finally remember it and then go and check it out again. > Instead, if we had something like "My watchlist", I would

Re: [aur-general] Watch list

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Xyne : > You could write a script to parse the output from > http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg= > > That includes whether is outdated, the number of votes, version > number, etc. If you want comments then I think you need to scrape the > web page. > The code for seeing co

[aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Xyne
Hi, Just let me know if there is a more appropriate place for this and sorry for all eventual noobishness. 1) Why are the "x86_64" and "i686" tags stripped out of package names? Wouldn't it make more sense to use these tags to determine the port when uploading binary packages to community? This

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Allan McRae
Xyne wrote: Hi, Just let me know if there is a more appropriate place for this and sorry for all eventual noobishness. 1) Why are the "x86_64" and "i686" tags stripped out of package names? Wouldn't it make more sense to use these tags to determine the port when uploading binary packages to co

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Xyne
> > 3) Is there any way to avoid re-uploading a package when changing the > > PKGBUILD if the changes have no effect on the built package (e.g. > > appending packages to the depends array)? > > > > Adding more depends does alter the package... But you can always alter > the package in cvs an

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Allan McRae
Xyne wrote: 3) Is there any way to avoid re-uploading a package when changing the PKGBUILD if the changes have no effect on the built package (e.g. appending packages to the depends array)? Adding more depends does alter the package... But you can always alter the package in cvs and

Re: [aur-general] Watch list

2009-04-12 Thread Ashok Gautham
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Xyne wrote: > > You could write a script to parse the output from > http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg= > > That includes whether is outdated, the number of votes, version > number, etc. If you want comments then I think you need to scrape the > web

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Xyne : [ snip ] > Wouldn't it make more sense to use these tags to determine the port > when uploading binary packages to community? This would also be useful > for uploading "any" packages (which I suppose need to be uploaded > twice). Just to clarify, currently [community] does not sup

[aur-general] python-apsw package

2009-04-12 Thread Juan Miguel Cejuela
I have just updated and started to maintain the python-apsw package (the current version in AUR was from Oct 2007, when the last version is from Feb 2009) This package is needed for the tribler package (bittorrent client) Please let me know if you use this library and therefore whether the packag

Re: [aur-general] Watch list

2009-04-12 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 06:06, Ashok Gautham wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Xyne wrote: > I think I am not clear. Well. I meant some link on the site. Something like > My Packages. Once I log in, I should have a list of packages I am watching > over.  Something like > > http://wiki.ans

Re: [aur-general] Resigning as a TU

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Brannon
Firmicus wrote: > I offer the following packages for adoption to any interested TU: ... > libxml-perl > perl-file-nfslock > perl-freezethaw Adopted. -- Chris

Re: [aur-general] python-apsw package

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Juan Miguel Cejuela : > I have just updated and started to maintain the python-apsw package (the > current version in AUR was from Oct 2007, when the last version is from Feb > 2009) > > This package is needed for the tribler package (bittorrent client) > > Please let me know if you use t

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Xyne
Allan McRae wrote: > The .PKGINFO file is created by makepkg and compressed inside the > package. When you upload a package to the server, this file is > extracted and an entry is made for the pacman database using this > information. So any change that alters the .PKGINFO file or any > ins

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:23:07PM +0200, Xyne wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > > The .PKGINFO file is created by makepkg and compressed inside the > > package. When you upload a package to the server, this file is > > extracted and an entry is made for the pacman database using this > > infor