2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > <big snip> >> >> I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make >> your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every >> package I want, although Arch has most of them). In most cases building >> the next version of a package consists of changing the package number >> and then running makepkg. It would be nice if there was a script that >> attempted to do this on updates and then informed you if it didn't work. >> -Brendan >> > While a nice idea (perhaps suggest it as a feature to pakthan or > yaourt?), I don't see how such a script would know that there IS a new > version of a package if the repos aren't updated. Unless you're actually > referring to marking some packages as 'I compiled this myself, please do > that again for me when the repo updates'? > > In the latter case, you could probably just write a simple bash script > to grep/sed the relevant numbers and --configure options, I do that to > mirror kernel26-ice to kernel26-rt-ice. > Similar as it is done in Debian (and Ubuntu) with the debian/watch files? http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS Cheers, Greg
