Brendan Long wrote:
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 :)
There are tools that let you do this... srcpac is in [extra], but I am
not sure how well it works currently (the git version may improve things).
Allan
