On 17 September 2013 16:06, WorMzy Tykashi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 September 2013 15:39, Sébastien Luttringer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM, WorMzy Tykashi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > As it stands, the new testing/btrfs-progs is building the same tools as >> the >> > btrfs-progs-git PKGBUILD (albeit with !staticlibs), extra/btrfs-progs is >> > still quite behind. >> > >> > Once the testing package hits extra, btrfs-progs-git will be redundant >> (at >> > least until Chris pulls in more commits). I guess the worth of >> > btrfs-progs-git depends on how often Tom is planning on updating the >> commit >> > ref in the official PKGBUILD and/or how often Chris pulls in changes to >> his >> > tree. >> In general, official and official-git packages have different purposes. >> >> btrfs-progs in official repos (testing/extra) should provides a >> released version. >> The btrfs-progs-git package is a _source_ package used to build a >> package with the _last_ git version (at the build time). >> At each release, the git package should ship the same content that the >> released one. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer >> https://www.seblu.net >> GPG: 0x2072D77A >> > > Oops, I always forget that gmail defaults to top posting. Apologies for > that. Also, I meant core/, not extra/. > > > > In general, official and official-git packages have different purposes. > > This is true, but until btrfs-progs starts releasing tagged versions > again, it seems that btrfs-progs{,-git} will be providing the same thing > (again, depending on how often the Mason tree gets updated and Tom updates > the PKGBUILD). > > I'd like to reiterate that I'm in favour of having all three packages in > the AUR, as I feel they all have value. btrfs-progs-git's usefulness will > (hopefully) be restored/increased once btrfs-progs hits v0.20 proper. > > > WorMzy > Okay, it looks like development on the -next branch has dried up and the latest dated snapshot is 16 commits ahead of it. Can someone remove btrfs-progs-unstable-git [1] please, it no longer makes sense. Sorry for the trouble. Cheers, WorMzy [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/btrfs-progs-unstable-integration-git/
