Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-29 00:55:12 +0200: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 00:12 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-09-28 23:19:19 +0200: > > > On 29 September 2010 03:33, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: > > > >> Or use bauerbill and set mplayer to automatically compile from abs if > > > >> there's an update =) > > > > > > > > I'm curious, what can it actually do? Build from ABS, ok, but > > > > automatically with my modifications? What about alternative packages > > > > only found in AUR? > > > > > > Check out the features: > > > > > > "* option to trust specific AUR users to fully automate AUR package building" > > > > > > From: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/bauerbill/ > > > > Ok, but what does this mean? I see a list of features but it's hard to > > get see use cases from a list. > > > > Trust an AUR user means I can for example trust myself and have it build > > a package from my sources. That's pretty much all it tells me. > > It doesn't tell me whether it solves any of my problems, whether it can > > do something like automatically building the latest version of packages > > with the options I want. > > > You can specify a patchdir which makes automatic modifications to the > PKGBUILD. Its less useful than it sounds though, would prefer a bit more > flexibility (like a 'hook' running some sed commands), but its great > as-is. > > So for example you can set it to 'always-build' mplayer, when there's an > mplayer update that's what it will do. If there's a relevant patch in > your PATCHDIR (or whatever its called now) that'll be applied. This sounds pretty much like 'works fine as long as the maintainer only changes the version number'. Correct? > Trusting an AUR user simply means no prompt for 'are you sure you want > to compile this, please check it first' for packages from said user. Ok, so that's rather irrelevant. Thanks for the info, I currently use slurpy for AUR stuff and IgnorePkg for stuff that needs manual builds. It sounds as if bauerpill might help to improve the situation a little bit, so again, thanks.
