[Libguestfs] febootstrap - Arch User Repository

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Dec 14 16:21:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:32:10PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
> Arch User Repository - https://aur.archlinux.org/
> 
> have changed the package location
> 
> I am not a developer (and i dont know ocaml) but i've tried to build a patch
> 
> eg.
> old location:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hivex/hivex.tar.gz
> 
> new location:
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hi/hivex/hivex.tar.gz
> 
> 
> 
> AUR has a lot Flagged out-of-date packages so it would be nice if
> febootstrap would have a parameter for adding a custom (local or not)
> repo.
> I'll try to help (with archlinux specs) and try as exercise to provide
> a patch - if you are going to consider adding support for declaring a
> custom repo.
> 
> Any thoughts about that?

Thanks - I pushed that patch.

It should work, as long as there are no packages with single
letter names ...

Rich.

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