On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:06:07PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 01/09/2018 11:48 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:53:24PM +0000, Jameson via arch-general wrote: > >> With the mythtv packages being dropped to the AUR > > > > I must have missed this, and I don't see any other mention of it on this > > list or on arch-announce or /news or pacman logs. Where or how else > > should I have been paying attention? > > We don't usually publish news advisories when packages are dropped from > the repos. It is easy to tell, however, by listing installed packages > which are not from the repos: `pacman -Qm`. Some AUR helpers can also > list packages that were installed from the AUR. Thanks. Yep, I see it now that I've sync'd. It's not something that I'd periodically check. I'm sure it would have jumped out at me the next time I did an update via aur helper. Then again my question was more about getting notice (and info), than about noticing. ;) > If a package that used to be provided by the repos is now listed as a > foreign package by pacman or an AUR package by an AUR helper, then this > indicates the package was dropped. :) > > It was also discussed on arch-dev-public (which anyone can subscribe to > for read-only access, or simply look at the public archives) as part of > our end-of-year repository cleanup. Thanks much, -mm-
