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Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
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Cover -git package when doing upgrade and add update out of date package? #181

Closed tmpm697 closed 2 years ago

tmpm697 commented 2 years ago

This rua lacks of update command that update out of date packages from aur.

also rua doesn't upgrade / update (if added) packages from aur that ended with -git.

users often have some -git packages and make no sense to only manage un-git packages.

vn971 commented 2 years ago

Hi! The -git handling is explicitly designed this way at the moment. If you want to upgrade "git" packages, see the rua upgrade --devel flag and the limitations:

Development packages such as "-git" packages are only rebuilt when running rua upgrade --devel. No version checks are done to avoid unnecessary rebuilds. Merge requests welcomed.

If there's a way to handle the packages in a smart way, merge requests would indeed be welcomed. Note that the problem is actually more difficult than it might seem because, for example, -git is only one suffix that designate these types of packages, there could be -hg or actually any suffix for that.

If one would want to handle this 100% correctly, looking inside the sources would be required, somehow. Some kind of checksums would likely need to be constructed, and a re-build should possibly be triggered when sources change.