On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:56 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote: > 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 Huh, that's pretty cool. Just knowing when Arch has a new version out and trying to recompile my custom package would be good enough for me though :) -Brendan
